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Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9 (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why are there so many different open source office suites? Wouldn't it be more effective if they joined forces? Or do they have incompatible visions?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Because before cloud vendor subscription lock-in was considered socially acceptable, there were a lot of big tech companies that wanted to be seen being “open source” in name to court customers while locking you in by other means. “Open”Office is the quintessential example, but it is by no means a unique situation in the “Open” source world.

    It happens often enough that there are some people who get very upset with you for not knowing the difference between “Open Source”, “open source”, and “source available”.

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