Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

59 pointsposted 2 hours ago
by doener
(heise.de)

21 Comments

soared

an hour ago

https://github.com/Euro-Office

I’m not familiar with the project, but can anyone clarify what it means that it’s not intended to be used standalone and instead built into other projects? What’s the intention / expectation?

simjnd

an hour ago

> but developed to be [...] integrated in another product that handles documents, for example a file sharing solution, an online wiki, a project management tool and so on

It looks like it only provides the document editing part and you need an app around it to actually open the document from a filesystem and provide its content to this editing interface, and take the output and save it back to the filesystem? (Filesystem, or whatever persistent storage medium)

traverseda

an hour ago

It's a WOPI app. Designed for embedding microsoft 365 office app in other web apps, but other people implement it. There's callabria, and this.

You'd use it to connect nextcloud to one of these providers. Probably some other enterprise apps I don't know about can use it to edit documents.

sourcegrift

10 minutes ago

My guess is that Microsoft is happy about this because only European software can make them look good.

ForHackernews

an hour ago

It can't possibly be a worse user experience than Microsoft CoPilot Teams Office 365 Copilot with AI Co-Pilot so I say bring on the eurocrats.

robthebrew

2 hours ago

Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

dgellow

20 minutes ago

What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner

kps

2 hours ago

Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.

JohnTHaller

2 hours ago

You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin

arcadialeak

2 hours ago

I can't help but notice that this, in effect, establishes collaboration between EU and Russian devs over a common open-source office suite, because both projects can easily copy future changes from each other. The irony is staggering, given the war and the public rhetoric.

sheept

an hour ago

It doesn't seem like a pleasant, bilateral collaboration since Russian developers do not seem pleased about the Euro-Office initiative.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE#%EF%B8%8F-legal-note

arcadialeak

an hour ago

Yes, but they can't do anything about it anyway. The FSF resolution on this matter, though, essentially means that they might just as well pull Euro-Office patches into OnlyOffice. So in the end, the product will be formed by combined effort.

samrus

an hour ago

Wait how does it establish collaboration? Because its opensource so anyone can copy the source code? If so, thats a pretty weak, and disengenuous argument. Is the US collaborating with russia because russians can use the internet and darpa funded its initial RnD?

arcadialeak

43 minutes ago

Euro-Office codebase will, obviously, not diverge significantly from the original product. If they planned fundamental changes, they would have started from scratch because taking over a huge project and rewriting its basis is an ever more daunting undertaking.

As such, any future patches to both codebases should be trivial to copy from one another, which essentially makes it collaboration.

ramon156

2 hours ago

War is between governments. A bad actor might as well lie that they're not Russian. If anything this is a good thing. Lets not make war define who we work with

mrec

an hour ago

Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being waged against the Ukrainian public (via killing, occupation, expropriation etc).

"Define who we work with" is basically the point of sanctions. Unless you think they're too robust too, and we should limit ourselves to strongly worded postcards?

neonstatic

an hour ago

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