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[–] 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why can't they just sponsor libreoffice rather than start their own?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That was my first thought too. Apparently Euro-office is based on OnlyOffice. According to Nextcloud and IONOS "Libre Office is 35 years old and no longer the most innovative and fluid". For more detail: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-alternative-Nextcloud-and-Ionos-develop-open-source-Euro-Office-11228123.html. I would like to hear what The Document Foundation thinks about this.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Well 35 years is just false, even if you count it as a continuation from StarOffice that would be 41 years, I can't work out where they got 35 from, but that's a stupid argument anyway, it's only as old as its last version, OnlyOffice lacks features. I'm not impressed by any of this.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Answering my own question, here is a link to a blog post from The Document Foundation, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/. The criticism of The Document Foundation centers around the use of Microsoft OOXML format in OnlyOffice instead of the truly open ODF standard in LibreOffice.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    This interview (Dutch) with the investor should, in my opinion, scare people away from it. It's just a bunch of none-answers and uncertainty

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    LibreOffice:

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    It's just straight up Nextcloud with a bunch of app integration

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    ... 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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