Collabora Online (often abbreviated as COOL) is an open-source online office suite developed by Collabora, based on LibreOffice Online, the web-based edition of the LibreOffice office suite.
Hm. Depends on what “based on” means here - continuously, or once, when they first forked it.
That bit is wrong. Yes, the underlying tech is based on LO but the web frontend is not. IIRC LO Online is about rendering the regular desktop GUI to web technologies whereas Collabora Office uses a new GUI written for the web and LO works in the background. I think not being true LO enough is what caused a rift between The Document Foundation is Collabora a while ago but I’m not too sure.
TDF actually announced to revive LO Online from cold storage to compete against Collabora. Fantastic…
Libre office ffs
Wait, didn’t they?
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Hm. Depends on what “based on” means here - continuously, or once, when they first forked it.
That bit is wrong. Yes, the underlying tech is based on LO but the web frontend is not. IIRC LO Online is about rendering the regular desktop GUI to web technologies whereas Collabora Office uses a new GUI written for the web and LO works in the background. I think not being true LO enough is what caused a rift between The Document Foundation is Collabora a while ago but I’m not too sure.
TDF actually announced to revive LO Online from cold storage to compete against Collabora. Fantastic…
https://assets.theregister.com/2026/03/02/libreoffice_online_deatticized/
https://itsfoss.com/news/document-foundation-collabora-feud/
Libreoffice online is kinda not a thing
EuroOffice is a fork of OnlyOffice
Libreoffice is working on online again
A big issue is that COOL is an electron app, they only support the web version basically. But for web stuff it is pretty good.
They just should make a fork of Libre for all EU goverments to use… give the developers of this fork a few million and you’re golden
That is the point yeah
Nobody wants to maintain Libreoffice apparently, also because LO online is not a thing yet.
OnlyOffice already kinda worked, there already is an app (likely electron)