Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice.

Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot…

  • rndmdsplyname@lemmy.caEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I haven’t made any claims. My comment is about the “vibes” of NextCloud as a “product” and “company”, if you want objectivity in what i’m saying.

    Im not a nextcloud user and it’s good that you personally don’t feel that they’ve made any moves towards enshitification but we’ve seen countless companies start with great and pure intentions that unfortunately throw that all out the window when: an opportunity to be a market leader, opportunity of profits becomes too great, or the userbase becomes significant enough. “Open Source” seems to unfortunately be part of the tech company corporate playbook.

    We live in a world where organizations and companies get to change terms after sale now. While it is not zero sum, if you’re not exercising skepticism towards those trying to offer you something, you’re probably doing yourself a disservice. Nothing is truly free.

    Also, OpenOffice is definitely not dead lol https://www.openoffice.org/

    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Nothing is truly free. Absolutely. They are living of their contracts and are doing rather well.

      That leads me to my point: there are profits and they are already bring made. (Yeah capitalism, can always be more. But since they started as a fork they know the risks and might not even feel that that is the right way to go.)

      Skepticism yay, feeling something is legitimate but shouldn’t be a guiding beacon for the general public.