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I feel sad for ownCloud and Nextcloud. ownCloud has a brand and this fork dilutes it. It will be on everyone's mind especially since the founder has left to cre
by educar 10y ago
I feel sad for ownCloud and Nextcloud. ownCloud has a brand and this fork dilutes it. It will be on everyone's mind especially since the founder has left to create a competitor. For Nextcloud, unless they can explicitly state why this fork exists, it's hard to side with them. What kind of ideological differences are we talking about? Sure, you don't need to throw around personal accusations or finger point but it would help to know what motivated this.
On a related note, this is a risk which many platform companies take. If you opensource your project completely, then anyone can fork it and take it ahead if the forker is a big or well known person. I think we got really lucky with iojs and node.
- thomnottom 10y agoIt seems to me that these things happen somewhat regularly in the open source community, because it was built upon that concept.
- jancborchardt 10y agoIt’s not a »risk which was taken«. ownCloud started out as a pure open source project and the company was formed later. Having it under a free software license / open source is exactly so that the community can step in when there is a problem with the company. Disclaimer: I am one of the people who left ownCloud for Nextcloud. Also one of the first contributors to the project when it was still very young, and the company didn’t exist yet.
- educar 10y agoYes, the risk was taken when the company was formed. I didn't mean that it was taken after the company was formed. I am a long time ownCloud use. iirc, it was even announced on planetkde first.