Euro-Office
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Free, open-source web office suite forked from OnlyOffice, recommended as an alternative to Microsoft Office and proprietary formats. Critics question its origin and copyright compliance.
Free, open-source web office suite forked from OnlyOffice, recommended as an alternative to Microsoft Office and proprietary formats. Critics question its origin and copyright compliance.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 43%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Open-source fork with established backers
“A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great.”
Comment from 28 Mar 2026 in “Euro-Office” “are used to maintaining Open Source, so I would indeed assume some seriousness here”
Comment from 26 Apr 2026 in “AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice” Escape from proprietary formats and Microsoft Office
“Competitive products like Google Docs, WPS or Euro Office solve proprietary file format problem very nicely.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in” “Which the only sensible decision to make a transition away from MS Office!”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in” “a cheaper and just as capable open product suite”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Seen as rebadged, overpriced OnlyOffice
“some janky alternative to a US software and label it as sovereign and pocket the money”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months” “If EU sovereignty means simply being a rip off, you get into trouble my friends.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here” “Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation” Doubts about project origin and legitimacy
“it's probably a fake project, the wikipedia page is only 2 weeks old”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Euro-Office – Your sovereign office” “this is an old fork that was recently vibe-coded to hide its origin”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Euro-Office – Your sovereign office” “this sketchy project hosts itself on GitHub”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Euro-Office – Your sovereign office” Ongoing drama around the project
“I will never again touch anything this "little" shithole has an affiliation with if I can in any way help it.”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Euro-Office – Your sovereign office” “Euro-Office has some drama around it too”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation” Copyright concerns and missing notices
“I don't see any copyright notices for OnlyOffice in EuroOffice. There should be.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval” “Euro-Office violating their copyright”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in”
Other office suites people recommend
The four most recommended other office suites, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LibreOffice | 345 | 188 | 65% | 13 | 20 yrs11 owners | — |
| Microsoft Office | 256 | 407 | 39% | 12 | 12 yrs11 owners | — |
| Microsoft 365 | 151 | 340 | 31% | 12 | 2 yrs11 owners | — |
| Google Workspace | 107 | 214 | 33% | 12 | 10 yrs14 owners | — |
| Euro-OfficeThis page | 9 | 12 | 43% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
21 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“With things like Euro-Office and Nextcloud really stepping things up”
“some janky alternative to a US software and label it as sovereign and pocket the money”
“a cheaper and just as capable open product suite”
“Which the only sensible decision to make a transition away from MS Office!”
“Euro-Office violating their copyright”
“Competitive products like Google Docs, WPS or Euro Office solve proprietary file format problem very nicely.”
“They are using Microsoft formats instead of the open-source one.”
“Euro-Office disabled Only-Office's paid license gate on mobile web browser editing.”
“If EU sovereignty means simply being a rip off, you get into trouble my friends.”
“it's hard to think of it as quality software.”
“this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up”
“Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.”
“are used to maintaining Open Source, so I would indeed assume some seriousness here”
“this sketchy project hosts itself on GitHub”
“it's probably a fake project, the wikipedia page is only 2 weeks old”
“I will never again touch anything this "little" shithole has an affiliation with if I can in any way help it.”
“this is an old fork that was recently vibe-coded to hide its origin”
“Euro-Office has some drama around it too”
“its upcoming Euro Office derivative”
“I don't see any copyright notices for OnlyOffice in EuroOffice. There should be.”
“A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.