Post B4uxdHdW64DHkCA4Mi by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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(DIR) Post #B4umD5HiIZPKPYGfQG by tinker@infosec.exchange
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Heavy drama in the open-source world of......Office Document Software. Nextcloud, originally a fork of ownCloud, has launched Euro-Office, a fork of OnlyOffice (pissing off OnlyOffice). Collabora is weighing in and issuing comments against both OnlyOffice and Euro-Office while, itself, forking Collabora Office Desktop from the Document Foundation's LibreOffice. Document Foundation has now resumed LibreOffice Online which competes against Euro-Office and OnlyOffice. (I think I've got all that right 😅 Correct me if I haven't! 😂)❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 I unironically love this!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥Document software may appear boring on its face, but Microsoft Office is a big reason why folks still stay with Microsoft OS and don't (can't...) move to Linux. MS Office 365 is often used as a bridge to allow folks to move to Linux while still using Microsoft products in the browser but that solution still keeps them tied to closed source solutions. Development of Free and Open Sourced Software (FOSS) office products, both desktop apps and online web apps, is a core and key element to allowing FOSS solutions to thrive - both for individuals and organizations. This level of drama and fighting is indicative of a lot of effort and attention being thrown into this arena. I'm confident over time it'll settle and different projects will merge back together or at the very least borrow and build upon each's efforts. Read and get your fill of the drama here: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/#FOSS #digitalSovereignty #installParty #Linux #diDay
(DIR) Post #B4umUro59E5Xp3t4s4 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@tinker for these of us who hadn’t followed it:where does OnlyOffice come from?what does Collabora do, and what’s their (now ex?) relationship to TDF?TDF are those who forked LibreOffice off OpenOffice? (which itself is StarOffice IIRC?)what is this "Online" version? where comes it from? any relationship other than the name to the version without it?My point of knowledge is basically, there’s Lotus Smartsuite and Softmaker Office, and OOo is now LO in distros, and I had to suffer through Winword 97 during apprenticeship.
(DIR) Post #B4usRGA7FiqFvTrBCa by zaphodb@twitter.resolvt.net
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@mirabilos @tinker Smartsuite… hmm how does that relate to 1-2-3?
(DIR) Post #B4usRGZzhVXfDjxqXQ by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@tinker @zaphodb 1-2-3 was the table calculation program included in it, though I mostly used WordPro (back then for CV and invoices)
(DIR) Post #B4uuETNezlZ34ADr4y by waifu@mai.waifuism.life
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@tinker@infosec.exchange wait until you hear about the drama with Libbie
(DIR) Post #B4uxdH9Nu66uEk40Om by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @tinker@infosec.exchange @zaphodb@twitter.resolvt.netOh, they even had their own "PowerPoint" — Lotus Freelance Graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Freelance_GraphicsI remember running into this software as a young kid, I had no idea what presentations are and I was like: "What is this?! Is it an image editor like PaintBrush? Even if it is, it's a very weird one!" 🤪Only years later it all started making sense to me.
(DIR) Post #B4uxdHdW64DHkCA4Mi by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@m0xEE @tinker @zaphodb I have no idea, someone threw the CDs-with-booklet at Karneval instead of candy, and someone I knew picked up two and gave me one, so I used it for a bit, a few years after it was actually released; before that, MS Works 1.05 for DOS was as close to an “office suite” as I ever got…