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…
They need to come up with a less cringe name than EuroOffice if they want any adoption. Not going to replace nationalism with pan-European nationalism.
If the point of this fork is software for European government use, I think the name is right on the nose.
I doubt EuroOffice needs widespread adoption, honestly. If I understand it right, the project isn’t creating new document formats. They’re just creating new software to read and edit existing formats. Like with email, where there are a thousand different email apps and providers, but they’re all compatible, they can all send mail to one another, because they all use the same email protocol.
And if you don’t like how one email app is managed you can move to another. Just like the EU doesn’t like how Microsoft and Google will delete their politicians’ accounts on Donald Trump’s orders, so they’re moving to another.
And governments outside the EU can and should build their own open source software and apps so they can control their own software independently of the big multinational (which we now know means American) tech firms.
I mean to say, I wouldn’t want China or India or Indonesia or Brazil to use EuroOffice. I’d want them to build their own document apps, so that their governments’ work can be controlled by their governments and not by potentially hostile foreign political or corporate powers.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, right?