I like and use Libreoffice, but its a local application. This makes it fine for working by yourself and on your own hardware. Google Docs (Gstuite) is an online application with the best collaboration integration I've seen and works on nearly any device you can open a modern browser on. Yes, both products have a word processor and a spreadsheet, but they don't serve all the same use cases.

If this new Euro-office can replicate the Gsuite offerings (that Libreoffice lacks), then Euro-office could be a great addition to the open source community.

LibreOffice feels like a java app with 40 years of baggage and tech debt going back to Sun Microsystems

Pretty sure it uses Collabora, which is literally LibreOffice source code in a web shell.

Edit: just checked, they are using OnlyOffice as a base instead of the already European Collabora. Strange choice but so be it.

Looks like this is going to be a browser based suite with online collaboration, more like Google docs than Microsoft office.

I can't wait for all the Office EU <--> MS365 tools Microsoft make that always make the Office EU software look bad on purpose

https://github.com/Euro-Office

Euro-Office liberates the ONLYOFFICE code base

Euro-Office is based on the ONLYOFFICE Open Source, an AGPL codebase. This code base is being extensively reviewed and cleaned up, with the goal of making it easy to build and contribute to. Why did we resort to a fork, rather than collaborate? Of course, forking should be a last resort. Unfortunately, open collaboration with ONLYOFFICE was not possible, for a number of reasons:

• Contributing is impossible or greatly discouraged. ONLYOFFICE typically does not review or accept pull requests. Build instructions are unreliable, outdated or just plain broken.
• The company regularly makes controversial decisions like closing off features in the mobile apps like mobile editing, and the removal of an administrator panel.
• Lacking transparency. Commit messages, when visible, often just refer to an issue number in an internal issue tracker. There are quite a number of binary blobs and compiled or obfuscated code blobs. Most internal code comments are Russian which makes is hard to work with.
• The mobile apps are not really open source but just wrappers. Example. The apps have extensive proprietary sections which will need to be re-implemented. Work on this is underway.
• ONLYOFFICE is a Russian company (despite many attempts to hide this), and nearly all developers reside in Russia. Open Source is a global effort, but current political situation makes collaboration hard and trust difficult to earn. Especially when development is not transparent and open. A lot of users and customers require software that is not potentially influenced or controlled by the Russian government.

Looks clean and consistent at first glance, which is a huge plus.

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Isn't OpenOffice deprecated? Or am I mistaken?

Can you elaborate?

Well hold on now. Could it be self hosted?

I use google docs when i want a simple document that is accessible and thats useful. I use open office or local programs when i want to drill into the details.

Nothing bad in having some variety.

Maybe they'll come up with stuff the other team didn't and both improve that way.

Euro-Office seems to have been directly forked from ONLYOFFICE. With that said, the Nextcloud team are some of the core contributors.

That only works in English. It's easier not to try and get clever with naming schemes when it needs to cover 12 different languages including one language that's written right to left.

Also from an administration standpoint it's a pain in the arse having a program with a clever name that you have to explain every time somebody tries to search for it in the company portal, and then can't find it. I already have this issue with some software on our domain called Omny instead of Omni.

People inside the US are sick of this too.