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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

No America's club

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 33 minutes ago (2 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?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

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

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 2 points 7 minutes ago

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.

[–] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

ZenDiS is awesome by the way.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (5 children)

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

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[–] eric5949@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 51 minutes ago

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

[–] genomebandit@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes 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.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I love the docs ability to create databases from my docs. That would be super useful for work and research activities.

[–] fishpen0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Right up until you are doing compliance and governance and you realize docs are actually a terrible terrible source of truth for any automated systems. We’re 3 years into a project at a healthcare company to rip google sheets and docs out of our apps and replacing them with Postgres, bigquery, dbt and dagster.

It’s simply not okay to have your database be something anyone with write access to a doc can fuck up a formula by accident on. Your medical bills being maintained by random formulas on dozens of linked spreadsheets maintained by hand by random people on different teams is part of why they are impossible to unwind. By the time someone audits it, it’s printing different numbers than when your bill was rendered and it’s version control doesn’t work to roll it back without breaking dozens of other things.

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[–] matek@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

It's just for the French civil service, right?

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

It looks closer to the markdown style of formatting though, and I doubt it has page formatting, or other more advanced formatting, or extensions, or a large selection of fonts. Honestly, even though docs has pageless formatting now, most people don't use it when they should, making everything unnecessary harder to read, so this will be better in that regard at least. This is probably good enough for 95% of what people use Docs for, but I wouldn't call it a replacement.

I haven't used it because I don't have a French government account, so correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.

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