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Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

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.

The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr

https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-i...

NOYB doing all the good work once more

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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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?

VS Code is built on top of the general-purpose Monaco editor component that's used by a bunch of other projects. This thing is basically meant to be the Monaco of rich-text.

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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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?

When they don't even bother to make a proper example screenshot for their headline image, it's hard to think of it as quality software.

My impression is that FOSS people don't use Office software very much. So are they fit to develop Office software? You need to use something extensively yourself, or do careful and proper back-and-forth with real users if you want to make a quality product.

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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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?

The project's FAQ are kinda enlightening: https://github.com/Euro-Office#faq

Your question is somewhat answered there: "What is Euro-Office?", "How does Euro-Office compare to IONOS Workspace, office.eu, the Proton productivity suite, Nextcloud Hub or XWiki?"

However especially "Why was a new office suite needed" is telling.

True EU sovereignty spells: the only requirement is, it must work "greatly" with MS. Oh well, in the past libreoffice and the likes mostly chose open formats as their reason.

If EU sovereignty means simply being a rip off, you get into trouble my friends. This is Chinas business and doesn't spell innovation nor does it mean optimism for the future.

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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Immediate quality of life improvement: Euro-Office disabled Only-Office's paid license gate on mobile web browser editing. I can finally send collaboration links to family and friends without them needing to download the only-office phone app to edit the document.

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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post #20

Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner

you must have already agreed and forgotten about it.

clear all your cookies from heise and see what happens.

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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post #21
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-i... NOYB doing all the good work once more

oh finally, we were just talking about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444803

here is another one (from the above link)

https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay...

Re: Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

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post #8

Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

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.

it is illegal. see the other comments below.

what's most grating is that heise as a technical publication that is much more familiar with these issues should really know about this.

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