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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] genomebandit@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Really glad to see the EU adopt more open source software as a way to combat the centralized control some of the american software companies have over the space.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As someone in and from the US, good. Private companies are far to prevalent in public institutions all over the world. Something as basic and fundamental as word processing should not be controlled by a small select few huge international companies.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Surprised they didn't go with cryptpad - aren't they already French?

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cryptpad is French, but they are using OnlyOffice, which is Russian.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuck :( Didn't know that... I got convinced by the company being supposedly Latvian.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is Latvian. It's also Russian. It's also Singaporean. It just depends on who you ask and how much you want to look into it.

But yeah, that's a large part of why I use Collabora instead of OnlyOffice, it's just a lot less sketchy.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What was wrong with libre?

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The web browser is the future, especially for a crappy document editor and spread sheet.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Then just use Word online.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it is called Word. Works on all computers, is free to use the web based version, and is the world standard.