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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ (www.heise.de)
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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..

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Why don’t they contribute to LibreOffice Online?

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (21 children)

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.com 24 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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.

[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old isn't necessarily bad, unless years of decision-making have left it in a massively complex state (see also: Xorg)

The real reason here is that LibreOffice is written in C++, which is falling rapidly out of fashion for modern apps, leading to a smaller supply of developers.

Contrast this with Onlyoffice. Yes, the document engine is still written in C++, however the build tools use more modern items like python and onlyoffice supports having Javascript frontends and scripting, making it easier to source web devs to work on these parts.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I am not sure if this is the real reason. C++ is still a very valid option. People used to low level languages can rather easy switch the language they are writing in.

Maybe one day we will find out the real reason.

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