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This week, a new European consortium of open source advocates (Nextcloud, IONOS, XWiki, and several others) made waves with the launch of Euro-Office, a fork of the popular web-based office suite OnlyOffice.
The collective cited several reasons for their separation from the open source parent project, including a lack of code transparency, unwillingness to accept contributions, closed-off features, poor mobile functionality, and the project's Russian origin given the current geopolitical climate.
In response, the OnlyOffice team accused the new initiative of violating the licensing terms of the original project (branding, attribution) and terminated their partnership with Nextcloud for a lack of cooperation and – more interestingly – recent (but unconfirmed) attempts to poach employees and project members.
This isn't the first time European open source advocates have dipped their toes into the space. Just last year, the French government launched La Suite – a suite of similar productivity tools designed for government agencies.
As for Euro-Office v. OnlyOffice, both sides seem to have legitimate concerns – anyone can fork open source software for any reason, but parties are still required to adhere to the license terms of the original project.
As we wait for the dust to settle, enjoy this hilariously frank quote from a recent interview with the OnlyOffice CEO:
Gentlemen, we are all civilized people. I’d like to personally address Frank Karlitschek from Nextcloud and the IONOS team – what are you doing?
In other news, the open source vulnerability scanner Trivy is having a moment given a recent security incident that has impacted several self-hosted projects (Arcane and Dockhand – to name a few). If you have the time, consider updating your deployed applications this weekend to ensure you won't be impacted.
If you missed them, here's a short list of community April Fools' Day jokes from Wednesday:
- Home Assistant '95 (Announcement)
- Googlarr: A Plex daemon that adds googly eyes to movie posters
- Postiz moves from AGPL-3 to BSL
- I Built a Hardware Privacy Toggle
- Native Android build of Immich (this has to be a joke, right?)
And lastly, other tidbits worth noting:
- Jellyfin recently released v10.11.7 and is encouraging users to upgrade ASAP as it addresses several critical security vulnerabilities
- Dashy, a popular homelab dashboard, dropped a huge release for the first time in almost two years
- Home Assistant picked up support for native infrared capabilities in its 2026.4 release
- Plex released a new lists feature for sharing personalized recommendations with friends and family
- The internet is torn on Linus' (Linus Tech Tips) recent private jet purchase (I really need to start selling $70 screwdrivers)
- Microsoft was caught injecting Copilot ads into GitHub pull requests, which the company was quick to disable after receiving backlash
- Unrelated to self-hosting but potentially useful to many readers – Google now allows users to change their Google account username
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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