Frank Karlitschek

@Karlitschek
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Founder and CEO of Nextcloud, Co-founder and Vice Chair Eurostack, Board Member MariaDB Foundation, Founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, Photographer
Today I'm in Kassel to speak at the ZKI AK Cloud Management event together with @hildi https://events.zki.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=910&page_id=
Programm – AK Cloud Management April 2026

We as Nextcloud published a detailed blog post regarding the Euro-Office licensing situation. Great to see that basically everyone including the FSF the SFC, Bradley Kuhn the inventor of the AGPL and other organization agree with our interpretation of the AGPL.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means/
Euro-Office: License compliance and what open source means - Nextcloud

Euro-Office reviewed the terms in the ONLYOFFICE codebase and found contradictions. We explain the legal basis, what we removed, and why.

Nextcloud

@Karlitschek is delivering a keynote on “sovereignty washing” at the Nationaal Cloud Congres at the @universityofgroningen to a room full of legal experts.

Curious how this lands.

Last year at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in the Netherlands we had 327 people on site. This year we planted for 400. At the moment we have 690 registrations. 🔥 https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-day-utrecht-2026/ See you all on Wednesday!
Nextcloud Enterprise Day Utrecht 2026 - Nextcloud

On April 15, 2026, Nextcloud will host Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Register now!

Nextcloud
Es hat mich sehr gefreut Gast beim Trending Topics Podcast gewesen zu sein. Hat Spass gemacht. https://www.trendingtopics.eu/nextcloud-wie-ein-gruender-mit-open-source-profitabel-microsoft-konkurrenz-macht/
Nextcloud: Wie ein Gründer mit Open Source profitabel Microsoft Konkurrenz macht

Er gehört zu den Urgesteinen der europäischen Open Source Bewegung und legt es mit seinem Unternehmen darauf an, Microsoft möglichst viel Geschäft in

Trending Topics
Last week I gave two lectures at the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France about geopolitics, digital sovereignty and the danger of power concentration in the technology sector. It was very encouraging how engaged and informed the students were. https://www.edhec.edu/en
Business School Lille, Nice, Paris - France | EDHEC Business School

Based in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, and counting 100 nationalities on its campuses and partnerships with 280 leading universities around the world, EDHEC is a fully international business school directly connected to the business world. EDHEC’s more-than 46,000 alumni spread over 125 countries represent a community of engaged leaders, trained to act practically and deliver solutions to the main economic, social, technological and environmental challenges facing the world.

The assault of Ukraine by Russia is a crime. I wish the western countries would do more. I'm happy that Nextcloud is able to support the Ukrainian Army a little bit.
Interesting: Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/ #Nextcloud
Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Tech Policy Press

RE: https://mastodon.babb.no/@frankps/116242927709528894

Yes. I am looking forward to a great event

Guter Artikel von heise der analysiert warum viele Organisationen immer noch Teams benutzen obwohl Nextcloud Talk besser ist: https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Digitale-Souveraenitaet-Haben-wir-schon-uns-fehlt-nur-der-Mut-11192309.html
Kommentar: Warum wir immer noch MS Teams kaufen, obwohl wir Nextcloud haben

Projekte wie Nextcloud setzen die digitale Souveränität in Unternehmen und Behörden um – doch am Willen vieler Entscheider scheitert sie, meint Moritz Förster.

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