For anyone confused by “Nextcloud” in the title, it’s just the blog attribution—Nextcloud isn’t involved in the acquisition.
Thank you!
A once useful software friendly to the open source/home lab community that got lured off trying to chase the fabled enterprise customer’s riches, only to collapse under their own hubris. Always sad to see it happen.
Thats a very biased article to link, coming from the main owncloud competitor.
But we did have the owncloud annoucement as a post some time ago, so maybe thats fine.
Didn’t see it back then, just came across this on mastodon today. Sure they are competitors, given that nextcloud started as am owncloud fork, but they probably monitored ownclouds development closer than everyone else.
This may be the push I need to migrate to Nextcloud. I’m struggling to identify my use cases, though and am wondering if all I really need is Syncthing.
I like it for all the apps. I got a cookbook app, forms app, rss feeder app, and more. It also lers me share a link to a file easily too. I also use syncthing, mostly since I sync more data than my VPS serving nextcloud can store.
I use both and rarely ever make use of file storage on nextcloud. Syncthing is awesome software.
So at least they are saying owncloud and ocis will still be maintained and keep their apache licenses… Still, acquisition of open source software is always a bit scary.
Perhaps not a great surprise? Both ownCloud and Nextcloud have catered more and more to enterprise clients so it might be expected that an enterprise cloud provider would be interested in acquiring one or other. Apparently ownCloud software will remain licensed under an Apache license but it still sounds ominous.
As long as they continue to maintain the github repository and keep it free without any hidden ads/spyware or restrictions, I will continue to use their service.
