LibreOffice Brands Euro-Office a 'De Facto Ally' of Microsoft's Lock-in Strategy
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LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy
The Document Foundation has taken a swing at Euro-Office, accusing the self-described sovereign productivity suite of doing Microsoft's content lock-in strategy a favor while wrapping itself in the language of European digital independence. The attack came from Italo Vignoli, a founding member of The Document Foundation, who published an open letter on Monday, just hours before after Euro-Office 1.0 debuted as what its backers describe as a "tru…
Italo Vignoli, co-founder of The Document Foundation, has highlighted the role that both LibreOffice and OpenOffice have played in European digital sovereignty as "two authentic open source office suites", in front of Euro-Office, which he accuses of being "a free clone of Microsoft Office" and of strengthening the sovereignty of the American company.
Euro-Office is launching a new open source office solution from Europe, which aims to position itself as an alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Euro-Office launches its version 1.0 today since the Nextcloud Summit. In Nextcloud Hub, the suite will simply be called Nextcloud Office as soon as the next version. The Document Foundation, behind LibreOffice, published yesterday an open letter to nuance the announcement.
Today, Euro-Office is launching as a European alternative to Microsoft and Google. LibreOffice's creators are now criticizing it. The new Office package completely misses the goal of digital sovereignty by choosing false file formats. (Continue reading)
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