I've been testing it and it seems like a good solution for general productivity and a great option for people migrating from MS. It's open source and cross-platform, but I just don't see it in any conversations about office software.

For me, it's so far leagues beyond LibreOffice. I really need something that works on my phone and syncs across devices, and allows collaboration. OnlyOffice seems to fit the bill. It's also far more intuitive to my preferences.

I am sure that some people wouldn't like the fact that the interface runs as a webapp, or use of Java, but it's strange to me that it's not usually even in the conversation.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It’s developed by a Russian owned company (Ascensio System SIA).

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

they're trying harder to hide that now. as of last year, a sg-based holding company owns a uk-based company which owns the original developer, the software, and numerous regional branch offices.

kinda sucks, because it is a nice program. doesn't have feature parity with microsoft office, but it's got pretty much everything that most users need or would want. it's also horribly slow on lower-spec hardware.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I was not able to convince my wife to use LibreOffice instead of Office365, but OnlyOffice was an easy sell. I really enjoy it myself as well.

[–] Tundra@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago

the app version also has facebook & google trackers embedded into it:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.onlyoffice.documents/latest/#trackers

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

On their page it says: "## Ascensio System SIA - home of the ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by experienced IT experts from Ascensio System SIA, leading IT company with headquarters in Riga, Latvia. Originally ONLYOFFICE was designed for internal team collaboration.

An attempt to introduce it to a wider audience proved to be successful: ONLYOFFICE received very positive feedback from the Internet community. As a result, its functionality was considerably revised and expanded that brought about a high and stable growth of users from different countries.

Nowadays, ONLYOFFICE is an international, open source project with employees and contributors in more than 30 countries. The holding company in Singapore unites our offices around the world under the ONLYOFFICE brand. For now, we have departments in Riga, Singapore, London, Dallas, Belgrade, Yerevan and Tashkent. Would like to join our big open source family? Check how to become a contributor or discover job openings."

https://www.onlyoffice.com/about.aspx

Hmm..you seem to be at least partially right.

"In 2009, a group of software developers from Ascensio System SIA (Latvian-based) and New Communication Technologies (Russian-based) launched a project called TeamLab, a platform for internal team collaboration.[32]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My hot take: of it's open source and they don't receive money from me, I don't really care.

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Until you work with anything that might be of interest to Russian services (Ukrainian refugees in EU in my case).

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Or you work in a field where national security is of any concern.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This is a moot point for me, same as "It's developed by China!"
Remove networking permissions from the Flatpak, run it in Firejail, hell, could even put it into a container if you really wanted to be sure.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

That’s very interesting. There’s a widespread boycott of any product with Israeli ties due to what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza, yet what Russia is doing is even more clear cut but this doesn’t register as a problem for most people here.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

How is it more clear cut? What Israel is doing involves genocide, forceful expulsions, colonization and annexation. Gazans haven’t had running water or electricity for over a year now.

[–] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You couldn't get more "clear cut" than what Israel is doing. It's also a matter of degree. Invading another country is bad, but it is not a holocaust.

Besides, boycotting Russian products makes no sense in the West given that they are already sanctioned to hell. You'd have to go out of your way to send them money.

[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml -4 points 5 days ago

so what? europe stirp sanctions from russian oligarchs and also make money by taking gap in sanctions on oil, gas and mineral resources sucking them from russia sponsoring war