I can’t wait for open source file standards to eclipse the proprietary microslopX formats. I hope adobe is being challenged with this for PDFs too.
It was nice to have a single standard that everyone used until they started to really enshittify it. Will be real interesting to see how multinational companies handle file formats moving forward. If you do substantial business with europe then using these products is the only way to have true 1:1 compatibility, but if you do substantial business with the US the reverse is also true… except it costs nothing to load the europe open standard software, and it costs a fucking fortune to pay for microslop or heaven forbid try and leave their ecosystem. Google enterprise apps are no better. Everybody keeps trying to lock shit up so that nobody can compete.
Another thing I hope they target is hypervisors / VMs. Vmware, ahv and Hyper-V are really the only options in enterprise today and almost everyone is still on vmware but quickly fleeing after the broadcom purchase and subsequent highway robbery. I want to see broadcom burn to the ground, but nutanix is just as bad with the attempted lock-in. I use proxmox but i’m not about to start using that for prod use cases at work- but if the EU wants to pick it up and transform it into something a bit more enterprise grade i’d be thrilled - or some other free and open alternative.
Also looking for a third choice for smartphones without google or apple tendrils in it that will be compatible, and this seems more possible than ever to come to fruition despite ongoing attempts by google to lock down their ecosystem.
OnlyOffice and therefore EuroOffice does not support ODF natively. It can only be converted to Micrososft’s OOXML for viewing or editing: https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_editor/supportedformats.aspx
In the linked Nextcloud blogpost, the CEO of Nextcloud is quoted saying they would put full support of open standards like ODF “on top of the agenda” for the next release (after working on the desktop and mobile apps and integration features (maybe for this release)?).
I’ll be the first to admit that it’s reductive, but I can’t help but think of this every time anyone brings up a single unified standard, no matter the technology.
There is a standard, and Microsoft extended it with proprietary bullshit mostly to make it incompatible. They say they still use the same standard.
Any word on whether it’ll actually write ODF, even if not as default? IIRC OnlyOffice doesn’t write ODF
May I ask what are you talking about? Of course they support OpenDocumentFormat as you can see here. ODF is not the extension, it’s the name of the formats.
OnlyOffice does not natively support ODF, only after conversion ODF files can be viewed and edited: https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_editor/supportedformats.aspx The page doesn’t say anything about writing, so it may not be possible
Huh, didn’t actually know that it doesn’t support ODF natively. Thanks for making me notice this.
So that’s why it shows MS Office files better than LibreOffice. It doesn’t use ODF as its base.
Yeah, looks like my Ubuntu copy of OnlyOffice only writes ODT or OTT, not ODF.
ODF is the name of the formats not the extension.
Have you heard about proxmox? They have an enterprise version too. I can’t imagine what VMware or hyperv may have that proxmox doesn’t also have…
I’d be more excited to play with it but just like I haven’t printed anything in years, I haven’t needed an office suite in years. I just don’t do any of that stuff any more.
Can I use it here in Burgerstan?
You need to give up you personal data and buy €199/year subscription first. Special offer for Burgerstan
