▲ 180 ▼ Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9 (www.zdnet.com) submitted 3 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/38159652
[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 30 points 3 months ago (1 child) It’s indeed an OnlyOffice fork. I guess they want to play safe, considering that OO is Russian based. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) I didn’t realise OnlyOffice was open source. Any guesses why they forked that instead of LO? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 child) OO is significantly closer to MS office UI wise. As to why they forked it, OO was basically only open source on paper and didn't really accept external contributions. They tried to shut down this fork with some dubious legal claims that are blatantly in conflict with at least the spirit of the open source license as icing on the cake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] flyos@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not just UI wise. They explain it on their website : their internal logic for a document is based on OOXML logic, while LO is rather based on a ODT-based logic. So compatibility with Office is more straightforward in OO (though we know Microsoft is not quite exactly following the OOXML norm, so still not perfect...) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Is one project clearly more important than the other these days? Given the gargantuan effort that goes into these suites I’m surprised we can talk about two of them credibly and in the context of open source. permalink fedilink source parent [–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago It also supports epub files, unlike libreoffice permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) I didn’t realise OnlyOffice was open source. Any guesses why they forked that instead of LO? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 child) OO is significantly closer to MS office UI wise. As to why they forked it, OO was basically only open source on paper and didn't really accept external contributions. They tried to shut down this fork with some dubious legal claims that are blatantly in conflict with at least the spirit of the open source license as icing on the cake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] flyos@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not just UI wise. They explain it on their website : their internal logic for a document is based on OOXML logic, while LO is rather based on a ODT-based logic. So compatibility with Office is more straightforward in OO (though we know Microsoft is not quite exactly following the OOXML norm, so still not perfect...) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Is one project clearly more important than the other these days? Given the gargantuan effort that goes into these suites I’m surprised we can talk about two of them credibly and in the context of open source. permalink fedilink source parent [–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago It also supports epub files, unlike libreoffice permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 child) OO is significantly closer to MS office UI wise. As to why they forked it, OO was basically only open source on paper and didn't really accept external contributions. They tried to shut down this fork with some dubious legal claims that are blatantly in conflict with at least the spirit of the open source license as icing on the cake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] flyos@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not just UI wise. They explain it on their website : their internal logic for a document is based on OOXML logic, while LO is rather based on a ODT-based logic. So compatibility with Office is more straightforward in OO (though we know Microsoft is not quite exactly following the OOXML norm, so still not perfect...) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Is one project clearly more important than the other these days? Given the gargantuan effort that goes into these suites I’m surprised we can talk about two of them credibly and in the context of open source. permalink fedilink source parent [–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago It also supports epub files, unlike libreoffice permalink fedilink source parent
[–] flyos@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's not just UI wise. They explain it on their website : their internal logic for a document is based on OOXML logic, while LO is rather based on a ODT-based logic. So compatibility with Office is more straightforward in OO (though we know Microsoft is not quite exactly following the OOXML norm, so still not perfect...) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Is one project clearly more important than the other these days? Given the gargantuan effort that goes into these suites I’m surprised we can talk about two of them credibly and in the context of open source. permalink fedilink source parent [–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago It also supports epub files, unlike libreoffice permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Is one project clearly more important than the other these days? Given the gargantuan effort that goes into these suites I’m surprised we can talk about two of them credibly and in the context of open source. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago It also supports epub files, unlike libreoffice permalink fedilink source parent