How are they going to pay for the back-end of all this? Once it takes off there will be millions in expenditure. Where is the income to offset that?
Document Foundation pledges Office 365 and Google Docs challenger
A hosted edition of LibreOffice is planned as a free and open alternative to Office 365 and Google Docs by year's end. The suite would provide online editing and sharing of documents written using the free, open-source suite. The Document Foundation said on Wednesday that LibreOffice contributor Collabora is working with …
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Wednesday 25th March 2015 17:37 GMT MrXavia
If its open source, which it sounds like it will be, I'll just host my own server, I already have one for files, DLNA plus numerous other things.
That is why I like open source cloud products, I can run my own service behind my own firewall, and grant access to people in my family who will connect via a VPN.
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Wednesday 25th March 2015 19:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: A Hardware Alternative Too?
My understanding is that Firefox OS is not free as in freedom. Lot of discussion about that over on Phoronix the last couple of years. Seems you have to go with Replicant if you want a truly free as in freedom OS for mobile. It's possible if the hardware were fully open, as you say, then Firefox OS could do away with all binary blobs.
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Friday 27th March 2015 16:05 GMT nineworlds
Re: Nice but...
When you are sharing a Dropbox folder and someone saves their document over yours while you're still editing, you have to work out the differences and merge them. Online app suites like Google Docs or Office 365 avoid this problem with everyone seeing the edits of other collaborators as they're made.