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ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project (www.onlyoffice.com)
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To build an independent office suite, Euro‑Office’s IT consortium opted to base it on the existing open‑source solution OnlyOffice, which is released under the AGPL‑v3

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[–] cristian64@reddthat.com 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Why not go for LibreOffice is my question.

[–] jcr@jlai.lu 1 points 12 minutes ago

Because they hate GNU and free software. They is european lobbyist companies

[–] xtools@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

better compatibility with MS Office documents. I've had plenty of Word docs and Excel sheets breaking or fritzing out in Libre Office, whereas OnlyOffice opens them without issues

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

AFAIK OnlyOffice is closer to Micro$lop Office in terms of UI design and would thus make for an easier transition for hundreds of clerks trained on that.