Episode Details

This show is host to two clouds, Nextcloud and OpenCloud. A little bit of history: Both clouds go back to some common origin called ownCloud, a FLOSS project devised around sixteen years ago with the aim to allow each and every user of the software to have their own file hosting and synchronisation platform. ownCloud was forked to become NextCloud around 2016 and OpenCloud came into existence in 2025 when ownCloud was forked once again. Curious? Then don't wait but rather hit play to listen to the episode. As we hear this straight from the horse's mouth. As we the founders of both companies on the show speaking about the origins, present state and future. Even if you're not into file synchronisation you don't want to miss this episode as there's both projects have evolved over the years time to become much much more than pure file-hosting platforms (yea, we are talking office functionality similar to the proprietary functionality available from your big hyperscalers, etc.). Interested? Then don't miss this episode.

Links

• Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud
• OpenCloud: https://github.com/opencloud-eu
• Frank's FOSDEM presentation: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud
• Nextcloud's Euro-Office view: https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means
• Open-Office rebuttal: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos
• Hacker Ethics: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_ethics.html
• Digital Indepence Day: https://di.day/en