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- mr_mitmWhy are we still focusing on docx so much? Is anybody printing these at all? If not, I have to assume people are putting information in a big free text field, arranging the text like they sit at a type writer, and then other people have to extract the information from the same free text field. There has got to be a better solution for whatever people are trying to achieve with documents.
- deelaymanImmediate quality of life improvement: Euro-Office disabled Only-Office's paid license gate on mobile web browser editing. I can finally send collaboration links to family and friends without them needing to download the only-office phone app to edit the document.
- soaredhttps://github.com/Euro-OfficeI’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?
- pipesWho is funding development of it?
- ChrisArchitectRelated from the Document Foundation:An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcementhttps://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-...(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451427)
- ForHackernewsIt 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.
- ChrisArchitectRelated:Nextcloud Hub 26 Springhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490715
- robthebrewIronically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.
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- arcadialeakI 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.