Jos Poortvliet, the ownCloud community manager who now works at Nextcloud told me that a lot of ownCloud features were held back because developers had to convince investors in 30 seconds. had a majority control over the foundation, which gave them the power to expel any community member.Īnother factor in ownCloud’s undoing could be venture capitalists. The announcement of ownCloud Foundation was met with criticism from the open source community, which saw it as proof that the company was still trying to be in control. And that balance seems to have been tipped at ownCloud. They have to strike a very fine balance between business needs and community needs. The community is what creates their projects. No matter who you talk to from SUSE to Red Hat to CoreOS…every company that built its business around open source values the community the most. It’s also quite hard to believe that an entire company would collapse within 12 hours of a fork! As Linus Torvalds once said, forks are the strength of the open source world.Īnd here’s where the important lesson is: We have seen similar departures in projects like OpenOffice, where engineers left the project to form LibreOffice. We’ve seen companies like Nokia, where a band of engineers formed Jolla.
Unhappy engineers leaving a company is nothing new. company world evolved as I imagined.” It’s not hard to imagine that the others left for the same reason. Arthur Schiwon, one of the core developers who left ownCloud, wrote in a blog post that he “decided to quit because not everything in the ownCloud Inc.
Although Karlitschek himself said that he would welcome anyone from ownCloud who wants to join Nextcloud, it’s not clear that he went so far as to poach developers. OwnCloud also accused Karlitschek of poaching developers. with immediate effect and terminate the contracts of 8 employees,” ownCloud wrote in a blog post. Following American law, we are forced to close the doors of ownCloud, Inc. Our main lenders in the US have cancelled our credit. “Unfortunately, the announcement has consequences for ownCloud, Inc. office, placing the blame squarely on Nextcloud. announced that it was shutting down its U.S. On June 2, within 12 hours of the announcement of Karlitschek’s new project and company Nextcloud, ownCloud Inc.
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