▲ 1447 ▼ France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social) submitted 2 years ago by juergen@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) For sure! self hosting is the way permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Renohren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* True: self hosting is beneficial, Foss office suite is great to empower us, users... etc. The point of the software presented isn't aimed at regular computer users that would enjoy a bit of independence, it looks more like something aimed at the enterprise administrative level that people may stumble upon while searching for a document (who needs versioning apart from filename extensions if you alone work on the documents).See it as: you may find , download and use updated packaged software on github but in reality it's really a tool aimed at devs before being a software repository for end users. I see this as software mainly for the French or German state administration being made public for others to enrich, integrate... Like Olvid is a matrix based E2E encrypted, real authenticated identity based messenger made available to the public once the French government financed it's development for it's own use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Renohren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* True: self hosting is beneficial, Foss office suite is great to empower us, users... etc. The point of the software presented isn't aimed at regular computer users that would enjoy a bit of independence, it looks more like something aimed at the enterprise administrative level that people may stumble upon while searching for a document (who needs versioning apart from filename extensions if you alone work on the documents).See it as: you may find , download and use updated packaged software on github but in reality it's really a tool aimed at devs before being a software repository for end users. I see this as software mainly for the French or German state administration being made public for others to enrich, integrate... Like Olvid is a matrix based E2E encrypted, real authenticated identity based messenger made available to the public once the French government financed it's development for it's own use. permalink fedilink source parent