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Frank Karlitschek
Personal blog · karlitschek.deprogrammingstartups
Frank Karlitschek's personal blog at karlitschek.de covers programming and startups. Since 2014, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “OwnCloud CTO leaves Company”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Frank Karlitschek's blog, linked by HN readers for the history of ownCloud and its fork into Nextcloud, and for his views on open source and licensing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- OwnCloud CTO leaves Company4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-28
- Nextcloud3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-02
What Hacker News says?
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:…
Comment linking /2016/06/nextcloud/
on “Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network”Submitted A possible future for PHP as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThat 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-owncl...
Comment linking /2016/04/big-changes-i-am-leaving-owncloud-inc-today/
on “Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud”Submitted OwnCloud 7 is out as a story · 76 points
HN discussionhttp://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud/ sheds some light into this.
Comment linking /2016/06/nextcloud/
on “Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud”Submitted Nextcloud Talk is here as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFrank 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-lice...
Comment linking /2019/08/open-source-if-more-than-licenses/
on “Scapegoating free software’s failures”Submitted Founder of ownCloud leaves the company – MySQL and LibreOffice all over? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted OwnCloud CTO leaves Company as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big changes: I am leaving ownCloud, Inc. today – Frank Karlitschek as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A cross-cloud sharing API – time to comment on the draft as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 9.0 is the biggest ownCloud release so far as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The privacy endgame as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Linux should thank Microsoft and why the future is dark as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 months of Nextcloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Frank Karlitschek leaves OwnCloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nextcloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big changes: I am leaving ownCloud, Inc. today as a story · 2 points
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