Why can't they just sponsor libreoffice rather than start their own?
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Q: Is that your plan with Office EU too? To sell it after a few years?
A: Tja, I am not sure about that. I can't see that far into the future, I don't know.
Q: So which apps don’t use Nextcloud?
A: Once we’re live, I’ll show you.
Q: Have you written any code around it yourselves?
A: A great deal has been written around it. (This is literally the whole answer to that question)
Q: Could you give an example of that? Will that be open source too?
Q: Well, look, you know what it is? I don’t really feel comfortable talking about this. You approached me. I’m saying: I’m not actually ready for this yet, because we’re sorting out a few things.
Reading from Wikipedia: Euro-Office is an upcoming open-source office suite and collaborative software platform based on OnlyOffice that provides editors for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. The software includes web-based, desktop, and mobile applications designed for document creation, editing, and collaborative work
Ah, so it's basically just OnlyOffice (and a few other apps?) in a wrapper, provided as a hosted solution.
Euro-Office and Office EU (office.eu) are not the same project.
How does Euro-Office compare to IONOS Workspace, office.eu, the Proton productivity suite, Nextcloud Hub or XWiki: Euro-Office is more of an integration component. It merely handles document editing itself. Storage, as well as navigation, permissions and sharing logic has to be offered by a platform it is integrated in, like Proton Docs, Nextcloud Hub or OpenProject. – https://github.com/Euro-Office/.github/blob/main/profile/README.md#faq
... ok, obvious problems that need to be addressed (and why not make it a nonprofit?), but I'm honestly impressed Microslop doesn't own all the domain extensions for the office domain.

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