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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (17 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?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (12 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's onlyoffice for cloud based office

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

what do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I'd personally avoid it on that basis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I'd personally avoid it on that basis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Do you have Amy sources on that

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