Notices by Frank Karlitschek (karlitschek@mastodon.social)

Everyone knows that the endgame of a successful software platform is a port of Doom. It seems that Nextcloud reached this milestone now. Enjoy playing Doom in Nextcloud 😂 Thanks to the amazing Nextcloud community. https://github.com/YvesCesar/doom_nextcloud

Let me repeat that. The Austrian federal ministry of economics migrated to Nextcloud Hub. All 1200 employees. The complete Hub with Files, Talk, Groupware, Office and Flow. No test but fully in production since 6 months. People like it. No complains. Other ministries are impressed and want to do the same. People who say that Open Source doesn’t work are wrong.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/austrias-ministry-of-economy-takes-decisive-steps-toward-digital-sovereignty/

First they ignore you, then they fight you, then …

This is unbelievable. So Europe is not even allowed to discuss how to be more independent from Big Tech? #Nextcloud

Microsoft Tech reißt das „Sovereign Cloud“-Versprechen selbst wieder ein
https://nextcloud.com/de/blog/big-tech-reist-das-sovereign-cloud-versprechen-selbst-wieder-ein/

Enforce the law: why we need the DMA to be applied without fear or delay
https://nextcloud.com/blog/enforce-the-law-why-we-need-the-dma-to-be-applied-without-fear-or-delay/

Unglaublich. Die EU knickt vor Trump ein statt die eigene Gesetze durchzusetzen die zum Schutz der Europäischen Bürger und Unternehmen eingeführt wurden.

https://digitalpolitik.ghost.io/big-tech-regulierung-eu-kommission-beugt-sich-druck-von-trump/
https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/perspektive/keine-deals-fuer-trumps-tech-bros-pausder-appelliert-an-eu-chefin/

Today I'm in Brussels again for a meeting with the European Commission. I hope they understand the importance of more European Open Source solutions for our Digital Sovereignty.

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/