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France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs (www.techspot.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

My god, this is so dumb!

Let me explain because this is so typical of the French public service called: "DINUM" .

They find a good idea of a needed service for the public administration : cloud drive service, IM, DNS, office suite, collaborative suite...

They literally recreate the thing from 0 or combine foss bricks while slapping a sticker on it instead of funding (in the case of small projects and NGO's) or even paying already existing European companies for the service. Then there is one more Foss project/ one more competitor to private companies. It's a pure waste of public money and it is annoying as hell. They are killing the Foss/European cloud space by just building redundant things instead of strenghtening the whole ecosystem by helping out/ funding it. They have the technical expertise and the money many projects need and just waste it on projects that excite the Foss/sovereignity spheres for a month then become abandonware.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And I’m sure that name won’t be at all confusing compared to their primary competitor, Google Docs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Why give a shit about an American company's panties being in a wad over naming things ?

/Gulf of Mexico

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Reading it, it seems to be more targeted as a team knowledge base tool than a word processor.

[–] wise_pancake 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Love this, do spreadsheets next!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Helllll yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a trademark issue waiting to happen.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: US trademarks (and copyrights) are only enforceable in other countries through the trade agreements currently being shredded…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Does it work the same for patents? It would be wild what kind of innovation would be able to happen if US patents stopped being recognized.