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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Really cool. I tried to sign up but you have to be part of an officially recognized organization in France and input their registration number as part of the process.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I definitely don't want the government attached to my personal files, in any country.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 36 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Calligra and LibreOffice already exist though. I am not against this in principle but couldn’t they have invested in an existing FOSS project?

[–] CostcoFanboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

A lot of government programs don't really make sense and are there just to put a name on a CV sadly. Collabora Online does exactly that and is primary licensed under Mozilla Public License.

They could have easily expanded Collabora. But you know, can't stamp your name on it.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 40 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

While both of those are great software. Unless I'm not aware of something they aren't cloud/network based office suites like Google docs and office 365.

It seems this is an alternative to office software where you can work simultaneously and share documents in the same cloud/network.

I don't think there is an alternative to office 365 and Google docs at this point that is open source. So this seems like a great project and I'll definitely be considering it for our company.

[–] Exceptionhandler@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What about Collabora Online? It integrates nicely into Nextcloud, but I am not sure about pricing for business use.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/

Guide for self hosting: https://collabora-online-for-nextcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll definitely check that out. I've seen some posts about it working on Synology Nas devices so that's very interesting.

[–] CostcoFanboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

If you ever diverge away from proprietary Synology solution, NextCloud has 100% integration with Collabora too.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's onlyoffice for cloud based office

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice seems a little slack on the security and updates. I saw the warnings in the desktop package, have they made sure the online offerings are secure?

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

[–] passenger@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

There is nextcloud and others you can self host at least.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Can either of those do collaborative editing? I usually think of that feature when I think of Google Docs

[–] genomebandit@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

Really glad to see the EU adopt more open source software as a way to combat the centralized control some of the american software companies have over the space.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 26 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

As someone in and from the US, good. Private companies are far to prevalent in public institutions all over the world. Something as basic and fundamental as word processing should not be controlled by a small select few huge international companies.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What does this do over what the collabora tools in Nextcloud do?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 hours ago

NGL I keep forgetting NextCloud has collaboration tools.

[–] eric5949@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Dont know why we need another foss office but im certainly not going to complain.

[–] iwasnormalonce@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Can the UK get some of that?

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

We should actually use an opensource, decentralized and private alternative instead of relying on another centralized service

See Fileverse for example: https://fileverse.io/

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Why distributed? Having your data tied to a blockchain seems unnecessarily complicated, and it essentially puts your data at risk if the bulk of the community moves to the next hot thing.

We really need to decouple storage from the apps themselves. Whether you use distributed storage, local storage, or something commercially backed like S3 should be a choice separate from the app you use to view and edit your data.

I self-host Collabora (online version of LibreOffice; OnlyOffice is another option), and my data lives on my NAS, but it could just as easily live on S3 or some distributed data store.

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[–] Slax@sh.itjust.works 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I agree but having two major countries using this might be a good move for more efforts from nations. I know Canada still uses all M$FT platforms and recently moved to EXO.

Purpose built projects like this would be easy for public servants to adopt and adapt their workflow.

[–] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wish we did with more open source and local software. My school in Canada has some agreement with Microsoft so we have to use everything from them.
The school mail used for all accounts is hosted by outlook
The databases are all azure
The 2fa app on our phone to boot the school computer has to be Microsoft (even gave me shit because I am root...)
Teams
We had a whole course for a year on how to use word.

It's a public school. Obviously with this most students will move to the USA for higher pay, we are literally subsidizing the USA education.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 16 hours ago

Checked out the site on mobile, and it was unresponsive to any of my clicks.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is this just for EU citisens or can Americans like me use it?

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Foss, just deploy and enjoy

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 13 hours ago (6 children)
[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 32 points 11 hours ago

I was going to make a joke but honestly it's refreshing and a good sign that Lemmy is starting to get used by people who don't know what FOSS means now. Welcome.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Nice to see Lemmy is not just a place for complete nerds!

FOSS is free and open-source software. In simple terms, it is any program for which the source code (i.e. the actual code that forms the program, its entire backbone) is available for anyone to see and modify as they see fit, without any technical or legal limitations.

This is normally seen as very positive, because everyone with the knowledge of respective programming languages can inspect the program to see it doesn't do anything malicious, and everyone can change the program to their needs. Also, the original creator of the program does not have power to put any limitations on its use, like introducing payment requirements, or deleting important features, because everyone can immediately spawn a version of the program that doesn't have these changes, while still having the rest.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 13 hours ago

FOSS (free and open source software) is software that is completely open source and is free for everyone to use. It's much harder to enshittify, and if it ever does people can fork (make a copy, and make their own changes to the software).

In case you didn't understood by now, it's free open source software

[–] betahack@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

free and open source software

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 6 points 13 hours ago

Free open source software

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