ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks - ownCloud
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Kiteworks and ownCloud join forces to underscore its commitment to the DACH market.

I guess that means it’s dead, as there’s no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ooooor it will become a free vs corporate solution like RedHat and the likes do.
    Portainer also does it for example. I think LDAP-Auth is paywalled but it makes sense that features like that are.

      • rentar42@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Yes! As soon as your homelab grows above a couple of services and especially if it’s used by two or more people SSO becomes an absolute necessity! The tolerance of non-technical users for handling a bunch of passwords and having to enter them everywhere is understandably low.

        The Home Assistant devs apparently also deal SSO as “a corporate feature that big-corp interests want to force onto us” whereas it’s the exact opposite in many cases: If we want self hosted services to be a realistic alternative to the “big corpo offerings” then we have to consider convenience and security an important feature and SSO is one of the few things that improves both at the same time.