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[โ€“] MurrayL@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Iโ€™m sure that name wonโ€™t be at all confusing compared to their primary competitor, Google Docs.

[โ€“] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 12 points 3 months ago

Why give a shit about an American company's panties being in a wad over naming things ?

/Gulf of Mexico

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] jBoi@szmer.info 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did a good Foss alternative exist? Libre office doesn't count. I'm talking about a notion/docs alternative like this seems to be.

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] jBoi@szmer.info 2 points 3 months ago

I wasn't aware how far along nextcloud is when it comes to collaborative stuff. In that case I agree, it would be better to have one good integrated product, than multiple niche ones.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

literally

Stopped reading here.

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Modified to ease your reading.

[โ€“] htrayl@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've seen it referred as a Notion alternative multiple times, this is the first time I see it as a Google docs one

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago

It's probably due to the name.

[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Love this, do spreadsheets next!

[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The same team is already using Grist.

[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!

[โ€“] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Helllll yes

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a trademark issue waiting to happen.

[โ€“] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: US trademarks (and copyrights) are only enforceable in other countries through the trade agreements currently being shreddedโ€ฆ

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago

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.