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What is a self-hosted app/os/service/ect that is widely "known" as being fully open source, but it actually relies significantly on closed source software? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] 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:

There's a user limit in the open version. This itself makes it more like a freemium model than open source.
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.

What is a self-hosted app/os/service/ect that is widely "known" as being fully open source, but it actually relies significantly on closed source software? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

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

I'd count OnlyOffice in that group.

Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] Illustrious-Many-782@alien.top 1 points 1 year 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.