Notices by Frank Karlitschek (karlitschek@mastodon.social)

Google is fighting Nextcloud by harming our Android app. Nextcloud now has less functionality than Google Drive. This is clear anti competitive behavior. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/ https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

Today in Brussels to discuss Digital Sovereignty with the European Commission. It's interesting to see how more and more politicians understand the importance of Open Source for a free and democratic world. #Nextcloud

The Register interviewed me for this story. 'Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows' https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/microsoft_unveils_a_finalized_eu/

The Nextcloud 2024 overview is here. So much good stuff happened in only 12 month. https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-2024-wrap-up/

On the way to Paris for the Nextcloud Enterprise Day and our big Talk announcement today. https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-day-2024-france/ Tomorrow and Thursday I will be at our booth at the Open Source Experience. This will be fun!

Software development is political. Software will shape the future of our world. We have a responsibility. I will never understand developers building surveillance capitalist products for Big Tech companies because they get a free fancy lunch or other benefits.

I think it's good that OSI published the official Open Source AI definition. Nextcloud supports that but when it comes to data, we believe it should be always fully available
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3593266/osi-unveils-open-source-ai-definition-1-0.html
https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-source-ai-is-here/

heise writes about Nextcloud Hub 9 https://www.heise.de/news/Nextcloud-Hub-9-ist-da-Dezentrale-Videoanrufe-ohne-Links-oder-Gast-Accounts-9888037.html 'Nextcloud Hub 9 ist da: Dezentrale Videoanrufe ohne Links oder Gast-Accounts'

Do you think Social Networking is fundamentally broken or is there a way to make it good for society. And if yes, how?

It's true that every IT system can have technical problems. But this global outage of Microsoft taking half of the world down shows the problems of relying on this huge centralised cloud services. There are better decentralised Open Source options available like Nextcloud https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue

Ars Technica covers the move of Schleswig Holstein to Open Source including Nextcloud. 'German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating' https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/

Microsoft is finally unbundling Teams and Office. One of the demands of the Nextcloud antitrust complaint. What's still missing is unbundling Teams and OneDrive from Windows. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-to-unbundle-office-and-teams-globally-following-years-long-criticism/

In a month we launch the next major Nextcloud release. Stay tuned for major updates in Features, Performance, Security, Stability and more. https://nextcloud.com/hub8/

If you are a founder of an Open Source company or if you plan to become one then I can recommend this event: http://05f5.com I plan to be there.

Last week I was a guest at the great FLOSS Weekly show. This was fun. https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/755

Hmmm. YouTube removed a community video that shows how Nextcloud can replace Google. No reason provided. https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/youtube-cancelled-my-nextcloud-how-to-video

We from Nextcloud ask the European Commission to finally take action against the anti competitive behavior from Microsoft. The digital services act already seems to be toothless. https://nextcloud.com/blog/anti-trust-update-digital-markets-act/

I wasn’t on the owncloud wikipedia pages for a while. Just noticed that the english and german versions don’t even mention me and the full history anymore. But instead it’s full with wrong marketing BS. Funny how Wikipedia seems to work nowadays.

The Verge has a nice article about ActivityPub and why it could finally led to a more federated internet https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

Reuters: ‘Microsoft initial offer to address EU antitrust complaints filed by rivals is insufficient and the U.S. software giant needs to do more, German software provider Nextcloud said, as regulators consider whether to open a formal investigation’ https://www.reuters.com/legal/microsoft-must-do-more-resolve-antitrust-issues-rivals-say-2023-03-23/