…why would they? Self-hosting loses them business.
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoThank you. Any reason why they wouldn’t make it more apparent from their homepage? I’m always interested in self-hosted solutions, and even I ducked out of there after seeing only subscription plans being offered.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Has that killed Bitwarden yet? There are many self-hosted projects that also have paid options.
I’d be happy with a paid (one-time fee) license for a self-hosted option with any software. Subscriptions should only be paying for data/storage, and if that’s offloaded to the customer’s local hardware, there’s no need to keep them on a subscription.
Especially for a product that’s privacy-first, that really should include a self-hosted option (paid or otherwise).
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say anything about “killing”.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You implied that it would hurt business, and that really doesn’t seem to be the case for other projects using a self-hosted/subscription business model.
If you meant something else, then I guess I misunderstood. No harm, no foul.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A software’s website and docs are very telling, aren’t they? It’s like a cultural thing from the creators, some open source software will always be more business oriented, others are more helpful towards homelab /self-hosting users.