Markus FeilnerMar 6, 2025
@Karlitschek @nextcloud if you read this here (and prefer this channel) please comment (here or on LinkedIn). What is going on? Why are you doing this? This is not very #opensource, and it only helps to confirm your critics.
https://github.com/opencloud-eu/.github/issues/5
Or are the accusations of Peer @heinleinsupport wrong?
Name conflict · Issue #5 · opencloud-eu/.github

Sorry if is this is the wrong place. It is very weird to see two different products / initiatives with (nearly) the same name popping up at the same event / time: https://open-cloud.de/ This one is...

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Show threadThoralf Will 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼Mar 6, 2025

@mfeilner @Karlitschek @nextcloud @heinleinsupport

This is really just foul play by #NextCloud.
I was about to rent a NextCloud server by one of your sponsors.
I will not do that, because I do not want to support such a bully behavior.

Shame on you!

Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 6, 2025

@thoralf @Karlitschek @nextcloud @heinleinsupport
To me, this sounds funny or weird. What a coincidence. I wonder if anybody ever heard of open cloud for nextcloud anywhere before the fork to opencloud.

I am deep inside that matter, and nobody I know heard that ever anywhere before the new opencloud offer came out. To me it seems different, but we will see. Get some more popcorn, folks!

Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 6, 2025

@thoralf @Karlitschek @nextcloud @heinleinsupport

I wonder if @Karlitschek will be available for an interview about all of this for me. I am preparing an article on the history of #owncloud, and I am starting to see patterns here. I sincerely hope I am wrong.

Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 6, 2025

@thoralf @Karlitschek @nextcloud @heinleinsupport

What I also do not understand is how @OpenCloud
by @heinleinsupport could harm #nextcloud" – "to create confusion and to benefit from our name and reputation, because our offer can be found with a very quick search." sounds so far off from my reality.

And saying something like that lacks so much understanding of what I think is #opensource. Am I wrong? To me that all seems like a move that was motivated by emotion rather than business ratio.

Show threadMarkus Feilner

🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 Peer has answered, seems like Frank really lost this game. Wow.
It's always a bad idea to take legal action first and then talk, but some can't be nice.

"Apart from that, we have a very cooperative and friendly relationship with HKN/ScaleUp. And Marco from HKN/ScaleUp is fine with it and sees no conflict here that tarnishes our friendship. Oh well. Instead, this little incident has revived our friendship with HKN in a nice way, we have had many good conversations."

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Show threadJoakim DurehedMar 6, 2025
@mfeilner what is the journalistic method here? Pick a fight with the subject to get a reaction?
What is the critique you mention against nextcloud?
Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 6, 2025
@jdurehed This is a private account, not official views.
Show threadJoakim DurehedMar 6, 2025
@mfeilner aha, I see. Anyways, I am interested in the article you are writing about owncloud. Will it be available in English?
Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 6, 2025
@jdurehed I hope so. Actually it was sparked by Frank's recent, irrational moves that started with Kiteworks takeover of owncloud. Heinlein is facing a pattern well known to others and I am looking for whistleblowers. Got many insights already. Many do not want to be named, but are very credible. Will keep you updated!
Show threadMarkus FeilnerMar 7, 2025
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