France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs

My god, this is so dumb!

Let me explain because this is so typical of the French public service called: "DINUM" .

They find a good idea of a needed service for the public administration : cloud drive service, IM, DNS, office suite, collaborative suite...

They literally recreate the thing from 0 or combine foss bricks while slapping a sticker on it instead of funding (in the case of small projects and NGO's) or even paying already existing European companies for the service. Then there is one more Foss project/ one more competitor to private companies. It's a pure waste of public money and it is annoying as hell. They are killing the Foss/European cloud space by just building redundant things instead of strenghtening the whole ecosystem by helping out/ funding it. They have the technical expertise and the money many projects need and just waste it on projects that excite the Foss/sovereignity spheres for a month then become abandonware.

Reading it, it seems to be more targeted as a team knowledge base tool than a word processor.