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…

  • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
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    22 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.