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jospoortvliet

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About jospoortvliet

People person, technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. Community manager at ownCloud, SUSE and KDE marketing veteran, loves biking through Berlin and cooking for friends and family.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43993700

    Hi folks, It's true some of our functionality can be rebuilt if we rewrite this functionality with SAF - even though it makes the user experience a bit worse. We have a file manage…

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    Comment #41637501

    Maintaining a server can be a pita, and not upgrading frequently is both a security risk as well as problematic from a stability pov. My recommendation would be to use our All-in-O…

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    Comment #41637481

    The Memories app is a LOT faster than the built in Photos app. I use it myself and it's quite nice, very doable on my down clocked old Intel CPU.

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    Comment #41637410

    It's risky business, though, as code of course gets reviewed a few times (at least at Nextcloud). If it gets detected once ppl are put on notice. If somebody can squirrel out that …

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    Comment #41637249

    This is, of course, exactly what Nextcloud does. It will most certainly refuse to run and break your system. And yes, it also refused that 3-4 years ago. Not saying it never breaks…

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    Comment #38465689

    The good news is that neither has investors... With regards to security, nothing is perfect but I'm absolutely positive that Nextcloud is ahead of the vast majority of open source …

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    Comment #38465674

    Note that we're not backed by a a venture capital firm that needs a 10X exit, we're self-funded and have been sustainably growing ~50%/year since we got started. We're over 100 peo…

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    Comment #38465649

    Ha, I wish. Been working on this for weeks, it's even a little annoying oC kind'a pooped on the party by having that massive security hole...

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    Comment #38465641

    In the AIO you have to explicitly choose to install them, in the bare metal setup they are not installed unless you choose so when you install for the first time. You're right that…

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    Comment #38465606

    You might like to hear that in the upcoming release we re-wrote the front-end of Files, that'll be snappier. Hope it'll work well for you!

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    Comment #38465586

    It'll depend on your requirements. Keep in mind that Nextcloud is the largest on-prem collab platform out there, so more users means more complaints... It is used in huge enterpris…

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    Comment #38465554

    Same here, but it's a big and complicated beast. I never lost data but then with hundreds of thousands of servers out there, somebody is bound to. Even if it's just due to bloody c…

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    Comment #38465537

    I have good news for you: https://apps.nextcloud.com Nextcloud is nothing more than a collection of small apps. You can disable even core things like sharing.

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    Comment #38465526

    I beg to differ and so would our over 1000 customers, none of them with less than 100 seats (we don't sell below that). Most have 1000 users or more. The largest has several tens o…

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    Comment #36330046

    Let me also link to the rather long launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eoo7YhDECw

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    Comment #27896147

    Loving it, that's very creative leoossa!

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    Comment #25918760

    He, of course it is. Though, Google etc are doing a good job progressively taking control over email, they already have made running a private mail server a huge pita.

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    Comment #22863792

    All reasonable if the company wasn't 8 years old, had 2500 employees and a turn-over of 600 million. They invested clearly near nothing in security over the last years. The extra s…

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    Comment #22863776

    You make it sound like a startup that build a piece of software quickly and forgot a few things. There are two issues with that argument. First, they put in EXTRA effort to break t…

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    Comment #22760876

    Well, yes, but now you're saying our trust is limited because other companies do bad. But we have a pretty good reason, beyond that, to not trust Zoom - THEY clearly never gave a s…

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    Comment #20856879

    Actually, we already quoted them in an earlier blog: https://nextcloud.com/blog/a-wave-of-cities-all-over-europe-... ;-)

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    Comment #20821278

    They should contact us - Nextcloud GmbH. A contract with us contains all indemnification they could ever want, so it should not be an issue at all. (A)GPL is used in a countless bu…

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    Comment #20820159

    So both the German and French governments host Nextcloud firewalled off from the internet. Others use things like a reverse proxy (City of Geneva). Most customers just run Nextclou…

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    Comment #20819890

    First of all, we forked 3 years ago and have progressed very fast since then - there is, from what I know, no code going between the two code bases since 2 years or so. Second, the…