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…

  • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Because the Only Office source is more modern while Libre Offices’s source code now is around 35 years old. At least that was the reasoning in one of the articles I read.

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      21 days ago

      So old code is now suddenly bad? Weird and somewhat also not the case, as LibreOffice is constantly updated.

      I guess it is a preference. I for myself tend to rather use a FreeBSD than Fedora for production environments.