Earlier this week, ownCloud Inc announced the formation of the ownCloud Foundation as an effort to keep the community together after the exit of founder Frank Karlitschek. At the time, I speculated that there was more to come as Karlitschek was not listed among the ownCloud Foundation’s supporters.
The other shoe has now dropped and Karlitschek is forking the project he created into the new NextCloud effort.
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