Technology

If the point of this fork is software for European government use, I think the name is right on the nose.

I doubt EuroOffice needs widespread adoption, honestly. If I understand it right, the project isn't creating new document formats. They're just creating new software to read and edit existing formats. Like with email, where there are a thousand different email apps and providers, but they're all compatible, they can all send mail to one another, because they all use the same email protocol.

And if you don't like how one email app is managed you can move to another. Just like the EU doesn't like how Microsoft and Google will delete their politicians' accounts on Donald Trump's orders, so they're moving to another.

And governments outside the EU can and should build their own open source software and apps so they can control their own software independently of the big multinational (which we now know means American) tech firms.

I mean to say, I wouldn't want China or India or Indonesia or Brazil to use EuroOffice. I'd want them to build their own document apps, so that their governments' work can be controlled by their governments and not by potentially hostile foreign political or corporate powers.

Let a thousand flowers bloom, right?