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[–] Kastael@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This was long overdue.

Microsoft Office should be next.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They already developed alternatives for Microsoft Office:

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/docs as an alternative to word

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist as an alternative for excel and data management (much better than excel in my opinion)

It's open source, actively developed with Germany and the Netherlands (as I'm writing this post the last commit to doc was 49min ago) and self hostableby any administration or company who want to do it.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

not an english word in sight. must have super potential for becoming a new standard to replace ms office.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

If you were not a troll you would have seen that all the technical documentation about how to contribute and how to host an instance in the repository is in English. The code is well documented 100% in English.

It make sense however that pages for users is in French, since it's been developed for French users. If you want Geraldine, the secretary of the tax office in Trifouilly les Oies to use it, you need to address her in French.