Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here(www.heise.de)
54 pointsby doener2 hours ago6 comments
  • soaredan hour ago
    https://github.com/Euro-Office

    I’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?

    • simjnd39 minutes ago
      > but developed to be [...] integrated in another product that handles documents, for example a file sharing solution, an online wiki, a project management tool and so on

      It looks like it only provides the document editing part and you need an app around it to actually open the document from a filesystem and provide its content to this editing interface, and take the output and save it back to the filesystem? (Filesystem, or whatever persistent storage medium)

    • traverseda39 minutes ago
      It's a WOPI app. Designed for embedding microsoft 365 office app in other web apps, but other people implement it. There's callabria, and this.

      You'd use it to connect nextcloud to one of these providers. Probably some other enterprise apps I don't know about can use it to edit documents.

  • ChrisArchitect41 minutes ago
    Related from the Document Foundation:

    An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

    https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-...

    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451427)

  • ForHackernewsan hour ago
    It 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.
  • ChrisArchitect42 minutes ago
    Related:

    Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490715

  • robthebrew2 hours ago
    Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.
    • dgellowa minute ago
      What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner
    • kpsan hour ago
      Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.
    • JohnTHalleran hour ago
      You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin
    • retiredan hour ago
      Feels illegal under EU GDPR rules. I believe the accept and reject buttons should be equal size and style. Pay to eject, I’m not sure if that is illegal.
      • dgellowa minute ago
        The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr
  • arcadialeakan hour ago
    I 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.
    • sheeptan hour ago
      It doesn't seem like a pleasant, bilateral collaboration since Russian developers do not seem pleased about the Euro-Office initiative.[0]

      [0]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE#%EF%B8%8F-legal-note

      • arcadialeak34 minutes ago
        Yes, but they can't do anything about it anyway. The FSF resolution on this matter, though, essentially means that they might just as well pull Euro-Office patches into OnlyOffice. So in the end, the product will be formed by combined effort.
    • samrus41 minutes ago
      Wait how does it establish collaboration? Because its opensource so anyone can copy the source code? If so, thats a pretty weak, and disengenuous argument. Is the US collaborating with russia because russians can use the internet and darpa funded its initial RnD?
      • arcadialeak24 minutes ago
        Euro-Office codebase will, obviously, not diverge significantly from the original product. If they planned fundamental changes, they would have started from scratch because taking over a huge project and rewriting its basis is an ever more daunting undertaking.

        As such, any future patches to both codebases should be trivial to copy from one another, which essentially makes it collaboration.

    • ramon156an hour ago
      War is between governments. A bad actor might as well lie that they're not Russian. If anything this is a good thing. Lets not make war define who we work with
      • mrec38 minutes ago
        Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being waged against the Ukrainian public (via killing, occupation, expropriation etc).

        "Define who we work with" is basically the point of sanctions. Unless you think they're too robust too, and we should limit ourselves to strongly worded postcards?

    • neonstatic37 minutes ago
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      Oh, god