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Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by Saris »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.

Are the desktop apps open source too? I have a faint memory of only their document server being open source or something like that.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

Saris wrote: post #3
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.

Are the desktop apps open source too? I have a faint memory of only their document server being open source or something like that.

Sure are.

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

The headless server is Apache, the client and visual elements AGPL, which might be the confusion.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by mofosyne »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
Saris wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the desktop apps open source too? I have a faint memory of only their document server being open source or something like that.

Sure are. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors The headless server is Apache, the client and visual elements AGPL, which might be the confusion.

Could the offline editor interface with the online editor? Would be handy for a hybrid approach for reliability purposes.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by Saris »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
Saris wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the desktop apps open source too? I have a faint memory of only their document server being open source or something like that.

Sure are. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors The headless server is Apache, the client and visual elements AGPL, which might be the confusion.

Oh nice!

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

mofosyne wrote: post #5
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure are. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors The headless server is Apache, the client and visual elements AGPL, which might be the confusion.

Could the offline editor interface with the online editor? Would be handy for a hybrid approach for reliability purposes.

I don’t believe that they have very much proprietary code. I know that if you spin up their document server “community edition,” it has a limit of 20 simultaneous users without a support subscription.

This, however, can easily be legally patched around. It’s more just to make a point that it’s not supported without talking to them about a proper deployment. They also might have some code that is proprietary to make that large deployment easier, but it’s not required as long as you don’t mind the AGPL.

You can actually try this yourself with their NextCloud plugin. LibreOffice also has a cloud version available but it’s… let’s just say, in my opinion, it’s very bad.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by flashback2199 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4
Saris wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the desktop apps open source too? I have a faint memory of only their document server being open source or something like that.

Sure are. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors The headless server is Apache, the client and visual elements AGPL, which might be the confusion.

Thanks, your comments convinced me to finally download and apt install

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by JadeNB »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.

> I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.

As someone who doesn't even know MS Office well enough to know what I'm missing, what's unintuitive about LibreOffice to someone who knows MS Office?

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