![]() The announcement by Karlitschek and his new team was also well coordinated. In a blog post on Thursday, Jos Poorvliet, ownCloud’s former community manager who’s now with Nextcloud, wrote: “As of now, most of the top contributors to ownCloud core are joining and of course, we’re very busy hiring and aim to leave no (wo)man behind.” Later, it would become evident that Karlitschek wasn’t exaggerating and that the defections to the new project had evidently dealt a severe blow to ownCloud. The mainstream tech media was all over this story, but tended to treat Nextcloud as the underdog, with many tech writers assuming that the clause “most of the core technical people” was mere hyperbole and reported that the new project had been joined by “a couple of key developers” or words to that effect. “oday we are forking ownCloud into a new open source project called Nextcloud and we are also founding a new company called Nextcloud GmbH to offer Nextcloud software and services for companies and bigger organizations.” The saga continued on Thursday, when Karlitschek announced that he and “most of the core technical people” at ownCloud were forking the project. We’ve seen this before with the Linux Foundation, which barely bothers to pay lip service to desktop GNU/Linux. I suspect that the main purpose of the Foundation is to eventually put up a firewall that would remove community developers from the decision making process and insure that future development was guided by corporate enterprise users. This important step ensures the continued growth and success of the ownCloud ecosystem.’” ‘By placing the project in the hands of the Foundation we are relying on the collective wisdom of the ownCloud community to provide the same, positive guiding hand to the governance of the project as they have to the creation, nurturing and development of the ownCloud project. Who owns the community? Who owns ownCloud itself? And what matters more, short term money or long term responsibility and growth? Is ownCloud just another company or do we also have to answer to the hundreds of volunteers who contribute and make it what it is today?”įlash forward to Tuesday, when OwnCloud announced on its website the formation of the ownCloud Foundation: “’We are extremely proud of how the free, community version of ownCloud, as well as the commercially supported product, have gained such wide adoption globally,’ said Markus Rex, ownCloud, Inc., CEO and cofounder. You may remember that back in April, ownCloud co-founder Frank Karlitschek abruptly resigned from the project with an explanation that was a little on the vague side: “Without sharing too much, there are some moral questions popping up for me. The news was dominated by three big stories: ownCloud, Nextcloud and ownCloud. Meanwhile, it’s been an interesting week in the world of FOSS… So if you’re going to be there, remember to keep an eye out for us. ![]() Also, FOSS Force will have a booth at this year’s event, a first for us at any conference. Again this year, I’ll be going to the SouthEast LinuxFest and will be turning in reports from the conference. Also included: Four new distros, the quote of the week, Steam Machine lacks steam, Ubuntu’s tool for making Snaps, and ArchAssault changes its name. ![]()
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