It's a lot better now. You should read on the history of owncloud/nextcloud to answer your proprietary questions, but the short verison is: nextcloud is open a

It's a lot better now. You should read on the history of owncloud/nextcloud to answer your proprietary questions, but the short verison is: nextcloud is open as can be and in really good shape. It will most likely never be quite as magic as Google Photos, but it's close enough to not miss GPhotos. Email me if you want to keep chatting about it or if you want to get a login to my intance to check it out :)