To build an independent office suite, Euro‑Office’s IT consortium opted to base it on the existing open‑source solution OnlyOffice, which is released under the AGPL‑v3
To build an independent office suite, Euro‑Office’s IT consortium opted to base it on the existing open‑source solution OnlyOffice, which is released under the AGPL‑v3
Why not go for LibreOffice is my question.
Euro-Office primarily wants to have something like Google Docs, i.e. collaborative office that’s available from the web browser. LibreOffice Online is not supported by LibreOffice (The Document Foundation).
AFAIK OnlyOffice is closer to Micro$lop Office in terms of UI design and would thus make for an easier transition for hundreds of clerks trained on that.
better compatibility with MS Office documents. I’ve had plenty of Word docs and Excel sheets breaking or fritzing out in Libre Office, whereas OnlyOffice opens them without issues
Because they hate GNU and free software. They is european lobbyist companies
Imagine being this ignorant. They chose to fork only office because it’s web based and AGPL.
The original only office team refuses to allow community contributions and tries to stop people from forking it with a stupid (against the terms and spirit of the AGPL) poison pill.
Eurooffice are the good people here.
At first, it seemed to me that Euro-Office simply removed any mention of ONLYOFFICE and its authors because they didn’t want to be associated with a Russian product (even though it’s based in Latvia). The developers wanted the origin of the product and its authors to be mentioned in the ‘About’ section and somewhere in the README like based on ONLYOFFICE. I think it would be polite of euro-office.
But as I understand it, the Reddit and Lemmy users see the problem in the fact that you must use someone else’s logo, which you can’t use.