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OwnCloud closes US office, blames Nextcloud

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The company blames co-founder Frank Karlitschek starting a new competing company, Nextcloud, for the move. OwnCloud's parent German division remains open.

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Comments (5)

dotmatrix ·
This is one thing that, while healthy overall, is very annoying with Open Source/ FOSS.

I run Owncloud on my personal domain... Now I'll need to switch horses as the Owncloud branch seems to be dying.

I hope the Nextcloud branch continues the development and integration of the online ODT editor... hopefully the "Collaboration Partner", Spreedbox,doesn't have key components locked away in proprietary 'enterprise only' functions and services... and yada, yada, everything new must be bad... yes?
nmset ·
I just upgraded to OwnCloud 9, so I can stick with it for a few months or years and see what happens to the original branch. I'm still using OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice, fork is synonym to rebellion, mmmhh...
kikinovak ·
Same here. I'm running OwnCloud for a few clients as well as for my personal needs. Now I wonder which way to go. Stay with OwnCloud? Move over to NextCloud? Go figure.
alc ·
I signed up for the Nextcloud newsletter. Until I see what they will be doing and offering, I'll stay with Owncloud.

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