European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
  • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    So, plenty good to skip MS/Goog, but why what seems like reinventing a lot of work when there are things like LibreOffice/OnlyOffice already out there? Didn’t see anything in the article which makes it seem like just a branding effort.

    • D1re_W0lf@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      It’s indeed an OnlyOffice fork. I guess they want to play safe, considering that OO is Russian based.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      The intent is to replace MS Office in government use, so it’s necessary for the EU to maintain its own codebase. The whole point is reducing government dependence on foreign-controlled software. The only way to accomplish that is to create your own self-controlled fork.