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Gina
@Gina@fosstodon.org  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm at the @nextcloud Enterprise Day in the Hague today, listening to our @jospoortvliet present new #Nextcloud features 馃敟

Nextcloud main room, large rows of people with Jos presenting on stage
Nextcloud main room, large rows of people with Jos presenting on stage
Nextcloud main room, large rows of people with Jos presenting on stage
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Gina
@Gina@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Currently listening to a talk by large consultancy Centric about their #opensource sovereign workspace - basically the commercial version of #MijnBureau, #LaSuite and #OpenDesk.

Strongly mixed feelings. Like yeah consultancies have a role, but (having worked for Big Consulting for years) I know that their motives are purely monetary.

Slide with some information on Centric's corporate office365 alternative
Slide with some information on Centric's corporate office365 alternative
Slide with some information on Centric's corporate office365 alternative
A representative of Centric on the main stage
A representative of Centric on the main stage
A representative of Centric on the main stage
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Mark (praseodym)
@praseodym@hsnl.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina also are they suggesting eIDAS for workspace authentication?!

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ojonnysilva
@ojonnysilva@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina I get you, but at the same time I think one of the strenghts of open source is how it enables people and organizations with different goals to help each other.

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@benvantende@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina Exactly know what you mean. I had the same when I was working for Alliander. When these kinds of companies mention open source, it is not about collaboration. The phrase I came across was 'we are not a charity'. While that might be true, I love to hear some other motivators too.

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Gina
@Gina@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

First question from the crowd: "yeah hi will you also offer a desktop application to replace Microsoft Word?" Sigh.

#LibreOffice #Collabora #OnlyOffice

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haagch
@haagch@mastodon.online replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina Well Collabora Office For Desktop is now out. :)

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notzed
@notzed@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina Well you pretend to be Microsoft Office, what do you expect? It's an impossible situation TBH. People wont use anything else if it isn't close enough and you can never keep up. Been the same way for 30 odd years once "word processor" or "spreadsheet" became supplanted by those criminals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.)

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Andrew Graves :arch: :linux:
@graves501@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Gina

Ugh, I guess some people have been living in this fever dream (= Microsoft ecosystem) for way too long so that they can't see or think outside of the box anymore... thus the lack of awareness of #LibreOffice etc.

Just like the story with the fish that got its aquarium halved for a while and then still would continue to swim on only the one half even though the aquarium had its full size back 馃

EDIT: Wording

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