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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 55 minutes 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€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

literally

Stopped reading here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

Modified to ease your reading.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's ok bud reading can be exhausting especially when people don't use paragraphs. Take a break, close your eyes, and maybe in a few hours you can come back to it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

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€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

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€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a trademark issue waiting to happen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Love this, do spreadsheets next!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The same team is already using Grist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Helllll yes

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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

/Gulf of Mexico