They can’t because Googles empire is built on bait and switch tactics, and if the product is open source, nobody can bait and switch it.
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ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Haven’t heard of Roundcube, but it looks cool.
I feel like Nextcloud is going to become Google one day, but I have nothing to back that up other than they just keep adding more and more capabilities
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 months ago
Yeah, NextCloud itself was forked from OwnCloud because its core contributors didn’t like where OwnCloud was going. I imagine the same could happen to NextCloud the moment it’s getting enshittified.
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Having seen where Owncloud ended up here recently, the NC founders weren’t wrong.
sucius1@lemdro.id 10 months ago
As long as they remain open source I see no problem with that. I use both in my server and they’re both great products, with the plus that you don’t have to deal with any of Google’s shitty practices.
dauerstaender@feddit.de 10 months ago
Being open source mean nothing if no one else can continue development, other than that yeah pretty great
sucius1@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Being open source means exactly that, anyone can fork it and continue development if need be. I really don’t understand what you’re trying to say
prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Maybe he was talking about capacity to develop further or fix bugs. In theory a community can do that (and actually do in many instances) but sometimes development of a community fork tagnates due to the lack of resources.
Best example to disprove this theory is … Nextcloud. Owncloud went ahead and developed a new version in go to scale more easily but next cloud is the defacto standard for most people that were using own cloud before the fork.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 months ago
Adding a managed services option for NextCloud would be smart. Individual instances that don't share anything, managed by NextCloud and deployable on multiple cloud infrastructures.