Self-Host Weekly (3 April 2026)

Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995

Weekly Highlights

This week, a new European consortium of open source advocates (Nextcloud, IONOS, XWiki, andseveral others) made waves with the launch ofEuro-Office, a fork of the popular web-based office suiteOnlyOffice.

The collectivecited several reasonsfor their separation from theopen 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 ofviolating the licensing terms of the original project(branding, attribution) andterminated their partnership with Nextcloudfor 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 launchedLa 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 frankquote from arecent interview with the OnlyOffice CEO:

In other news, the open source vulnerability scannerTrivyishaving a momentgiven a recent security incident that has impacted several self-hosted projects (ArcaneandDockhand– 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:

And lastly, other tidbits worth noting:

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