Kiteworks and ownCloud join forces to underscore its commitment to the DACH market.
I guess that means it’s dead, as there’s no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product
It might be, but in the history of that corp, they never had a free/community/oss project. It looks like the typical Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy, where you acquire competitors just to get their customer base instead of the real product. OC 10 it’s already dead (no php 8 support) and ocis has almost no plugins.
Didn’t know about their history.
If that was the case: Fun while it lasted. Havent used it thus far but I wasn’t against the situation if it justified the use of it.
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It might be, but in the history of that corp, they never had a free/community/oss project. It looks like the typical Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy, where you acquire competitors just to get their customer base instead of the real product. OC 10 it’s already dead (no php 8 support) and ocis has almost no plugins.
Didn’t know about their history.
If that was the case: Fun while it lasted. Havent used it thus far but I wasn’t against the situation if it justified the use of it.