I can't help but notice that this, in effect, establishes collaboration between EU and Russian devs over a common open-source office suite, because both projects can easily copy future changes from each other. The irony is staggering, given the war and the public rhetoric.

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nickserv 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The developer is "Ascensio System SIA", and they are located in Riga, Latvia.

Why the mention of Russian developers?

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sheept 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn't seem like a pleasant, bilateral collaboration since Russian developers do not seem pleased about the Euro-Office initiative.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE#%EF%B8%8F-legal-note

	▲	arcadialeak 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but they can't do anything about it anyway. The FSF resolution on this matter, though, essentially means that they might just as well pull Euro-Office patches into OnlyOffice. So in the end, the product will be formed by combined effort.

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samrus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait how does it establish collaboration? Because its opensource so anyone can copy the source code? If so, thats a pretty weak, and disengenuous argument. Is the US collaborating with russia because russians can use the internet and darpa funded its initial RnD?

	▲	arcadialeak 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Euro-Office codebase will, obviously, not diverge significantly from the original product. If they planned fundamental changes, they would have started from scratch because taking over a huge project and rewriting its basis is an ever more daunting undertaking. As such, any future patches to both codebases should be trivial to copy from one another, which essentially makes it collaboration.

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ramon156 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

War is between governments. A bad actor might as well lie that they're not Russian. If anything this is a good thing. Lets not make war define who we work with

	▲	mrec 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being waged against the Ukrainian public (via killing, occupation, expropriation etc). "Define who we work with" is basically the point of sanctions. Unless you think they're too robust too, and we should limit ourselves to strongly worded postcards?

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neonstatic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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