Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek.de · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Frank Karlitschek, founder of ownCloud and Nextcloud, writes about those projects, open source licensing and the PHP ecosystem.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his posts to explain why he left ownCloud and forked Nextcloud, and for his views on open source beyond licenses.
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- 1OwnCloud CTO leaves Company4 people · 13 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Nextcloud3 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3A possible future for PHP1 people · 91 points · first shared 2014 · 89 comments on HN
- 4OwnCloud 7 is out1 people · 76 points · first shared 2014 · 25 comments on HN
- 5Nextcloud Talk is here1 people · 13 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 6Founder of ownCloud leaves the company – MySQL and LibreOffice all over?1 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 7A cross-cloud sharing API – time to comment on the draft1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 8The privacy endgame1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Why Linux should thank Microsoft and why the future is dark1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 109.0 is the biggest ownCloud release so far1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 116 months of Nextcloud1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Open source if more than licenses1 people · first shared 2019
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thibaultamartin · 2019-11-18
Frank Karlitschek (Nextcloud and Owncloud founder) has a very interesting take regarding open source and licences[1]
[1]: https://karlitschek.de/2019/08/open-source-if-more-than-licenses/
Walkman · 2018-08-25
I don't know about any paid only plugin. Nextcloud is forked from ownCloud because the original founders of ownCloud didn't like the direction where ownCloud was heading (paid only features for enterprises) and they wanted to open source every part of it. They are unrealistically good people, making an unlikely good product :) See their reasoning of forking here:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKvLSnFL6I
- http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12919330
MorrisJobke · 2016-06-02
http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud/ sheds some light into this.
devnonymous · 2016-06-02
That would be my guess too. There was an oblique reference to this a while back in the blog post by ownCloud's founder when he announced his departure :
http://karlitschek.de/2016/04/big-changes-i-am-leaving-owncloud-inc-to…