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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Calligra and LibreOffice already exist though. I am not against this in principle but couldn’t they have invested in an existing FOSS project?

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    While both of those are great software. Unless I'm not aware of something they aren't cloud/network based office suites like Google docs and office 365.

    It seems this is an alternative to office software where you can work simultaneously and share documents in the same cloud/network.

    I don't think there is an alternative to office 365 and Google docs at this point that is open source. So this seems like a great project and I'll definitely be considering it for our company.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What about Collabora Online? It integrates nicely into Nextcloud, but I am not sure about pricing for business use.

    https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/

    Guide for self hosting: https://collabora-online-for-nextcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's onlyoffice for cloud based office

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Onlyoffice seems a little slack on the security and updates. I saw the warnings in the desktop package, have they made sure the online offerings are secure?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    LibreOffice online exists. It’s not mature, but they could have invest half their time in making it so.

    Only Office is natively cloud based, with an optional offline/desktop version.

    Both are open source, if the concern is project governance, create a fork and rebrand.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    A lot of government programs don't really make sense and are there just to put a name on a CV sadly. Collabora Online does exactly that and is primary licensed under Mozilla Public License.

    They could have easily expanded Collabora. But you know, can't stamp your name on it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wait LibreOffice has a cloud?

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