Comment by dangus
3 days ago
I have a feeling that the Open Document Foundation is going to end up being the loser here. Collabora is the entity that can fund development with a commercial offering. It sounds like they employ the core contributors to the project as well.
Regardless of who "wins," I'm just here to say that I like OnlyOffice a lot better and switched away from LibreOffice. I like that it just looks more like a modern program and overall feels less clunky.
OnlyOffice is not really open source. They say they are but they also add impossible conditions to their license. (you are forced to use their logo, but you are also not allowed to use their logo.)
It’s also a Russian company in Russia.
That doesn’t bother me. I’m just looking for a free office program that runs offline and works well.
It looks like the Euro Office suite will improve upon it when it launches and remove the remaining downsides to it.
Make sure to backup regularly. I don't know how good OnlyOffice is these days, but it definitely has (had?) a terrible history of quality control. We migrated off it a couple of years ago after losing several days of work due to severe (and, as it turned out, widely known) bugs in how it handled changes/document version tracking.
I only work with local files and I’m really not doing anything mission critical. Employer has the Microsoft office license. I just need a free thing to open the occasional thing.