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minus-squaresherlock@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2 months agoWhy can’t they just sponsor libreoffice rather than start their own?
minus-squareGreenpepper@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoThat was my first thought too. Apparently Euro-office is based on OnlyOffice. According to Nextcloud and IONOS “Libre Office is 35 years old and no longer the most innovative and fluid”. For more detail: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-alternative-Nextcloud-and-Ionos-develop-open-source-Euro-Office-11228123.html. I would like to hear what The Document Foundation thinks about this.
minus-squareGreenpepper@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAnswering my own question, here is a link to a blog post from The Document Foundation, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/. The criticism of The Document Foundation centers around the use of Microsoft OOXML format in OnlyOffice instead of the truly open ODF standard in LibreOffice.
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoBecause then commercial companies couldn’t earn a fortune in the process, of course! /s
Why can’t they just sponsor libreoffice rather than start their own?
That was my first thought too. Apparently Euro-office is based on OnlyOffice. According to Nextcloud and IONOS “Libre Office is 35 years old and no longer the most innovative and fluid”. For more detail: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-alternative-Nextcloud-and-Ionos-develop-open-source-Euro-Office-11228123.html. I would like to hear what The Document Foundation thinks about this.
Answering my own question, here is a link to a blog post from The Document Foundation, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/. The criticism of The Document Foundation centers around the use of Microsoft OOXML format in OnlyOffice instead of the truly open ODF standard in LibreOffice.
Because then commercial companies couldn’t earn a fortune in the process, of course! /s
Sadly, this is probably why.