Illustrious-Many-782

joined 11 months ago
[–] Illustrious-Many-782@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well, it's more attitude than verbatim licensing, which is the reason the Nextcloud originally tried to partner with them, then immediately changed to Collabora. Some issues:

  1. There's a user limit in the open version. This itself makes it more like a freemium model than open source.
  2. Mobile editing and other features continue to be removed.

I'll just say that while it's technically FOSS, it's not community open source. There's a company that writes it all and open sources a portion of what they write. The company isn't FOSS friendly and continues to squeeze. It's not too much different to why MySQL got forked.

[–] Illustrious-Many-782@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'd count OnlyOffice in that group.

[–] Illustrious-Many-782@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not hosting anything exotic right now, but in the past, before the -arrs existed, back in the 2000s:

  • Linux computers in every room, all PXE booted thin clients I crafted myself from a pallete of off-lease computers
  • A custom RSS feed to rtorrent to a MythTV setup that migrated video as you walked between rooms.

The first one was actually useful. The second one was more of a novelty I'd show to visitors.

[–] Illustrious-Many-782@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Niche reason: I'm in China and YouTube is blocked. My server has VPN access, but my Kodi system on my TVs doesn't.

That said, I hadn't heard of this project, but I'll probably install it now instead of manually using yt-dlp.