I am old enough to remember :-) Hive01, those sites and the umbrella site opendeskop.org were started by Frank Karlitschek, who was very involved in KDE ~15 ye

I am old enough to remember :-) Hive01, those sites and the umbrella site opendeskop.org were started by Frank Karlitschek, who was very involved in KDE ~15 years ago. Then he sold the company and went on to found OwnCloud, and later on to fork as NextCloud. Actually, before OwnCloud there was an attempt to create a company to assemble and sell PCs with Linux and free software but that failed.