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robthebrew
Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.
kps
Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.
JohnTHaller
You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin
retired
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.
dgellow
What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner
arcadialeak
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.
ForHackernews
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.
soared
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?

deelayman
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.
mr_mitm
Why are we still focusing on docx so much? Is anybody printing these at all? If not, I have to assume people are putting information in a big free text field, arranging the text like they sit at a type writer, and then other people have to extract the information from the same free text field. There has got to be a better solution for whatever people are trying to achieve with documents.
pipes
Who is funding development of it?
kxxt
It would be more interesting to see the release of the desktop application of open-source Euro-Office because the CEF binary used in "open-source" OnlyOffice desktop application is proprietary.

I have requested [1] the source of the CEF binary for at least two times, with no luck.

[1]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE-data/build_tools_data/issues/4