France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
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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 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.
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Did a good Foss alternative exist? Libre office doesn't count. I'm talking about a notion/docs alternative like this seems to be.
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Affine is one, there are others. The important thing here is about helping already existing projects rather than remaking from scratch.
Nextcloud comes to mind, it is foremost a collaborative suite and is already used by the French interior ministry and partially by the French education ministry.
Why isn't libreoffice an option? Nextcloud does allow online editing through libreoffice.
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literally
Stopped reading here.
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Modified to ease your reading.
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Reading it, it seems to be more targeted as a team knowledge base tool than a word processor.
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I've seen it referred as a Notion alternative multiple times, this is the first time I see it as a Google docs one
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It's probably due to the name.
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Love this, do spreadsheets next!
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The same team is already using Grist.
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Had never heard of Grist, it looks great
One thing that sucks about excel and G Sheets that Apple Numbers does well is breaking out data for viz, looks like Grist does that too!
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Helllll yes
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Sounds like a trademark issue waiting to happen.
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Fun fact: US trademarks (and copyrights) are only enforceable in other countries through the trade agreements currently being shredded…
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Does it work the same for patents? It would be wild what kind of innovation would be able to happen if US patents stopped being recognized.
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And I’m sure that name won’t be at all confusing compared to their primary competitor, Google Docs.
Why give a shit about an American company's panties being in a wad over naming things ?
/Gulf of Mexico