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

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https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... There have been various efforts to bring LibreOffice to the web, but I haven’t tested anything in a long time, so I can’t say if it works well.

Why would you want to?

One reason is that it’s more convenient to use on computers you don’t own and can’t install software on, and other is you can share things with people without them needing to install it to view or edit your documents

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

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They try hard to whitewash their affiliations to russia for potential customers while still not condemning the war. Jetbrains at least had the courage to do so even though state-owned institutions in germany are checking to cut their ties even with them. I would strictly advise against using their (OnlyOffice) products if you're in a country (eu, america) that participates in the sanctions against russia.

"I would strictly advise against using their products if you're in a country (eu, america) that participates in the sanctions against russia." What is the exact meaning or "their" here: OnlyOffice or JetBrains?

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Not every russian works in the Kremlin.

No, but 4 out of 5 Russians dig[1] their dictator[2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra...

[2] https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9191/pace-committee-examines-th...

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

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My only serious gripe with OnlyOffice is that when opening a CSV, you have to choose an encoding and delimiter, and there is no way to set a default. You must click twice, in two places, every single time you open a CSV.

You have to do this with Excel as well to avoid your data automagically being formatted and/or truncated.

So true... opening a CSV in Excel is like playing the lottery. Sometimes it opens fine, sometimes not, it even depends on the character encoding of the CSV and whether you double-click the file, open it or drag it inside Excel. Sometimes you get the "import text file" window where you have to choose the delimiter, sometimes everything gets in a single column, and sometimes you get what you want.

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Not more than or less than using American or Israeli products.

Comparing America to a nation engaging in an invasion is a bit far fetched. Not saying the US has a clean sheet but it's still a land of freedom.

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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.

There is some confusion here. The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They're not even remotely similar. The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a "do not use" list. It's a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn't matter that they have a page saying "sure go ahead and use it in…

I think that’s why they have a commercial offering

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

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Not more than or less than using American or Israeli products.

Comparing America to a nation engaging in an invasion is a bit far fetched. Not saying the US has a clean sheet but it's still a land of freedom.

Do you know about your own country ? It's a perfectly legitimate comparison to make
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