Nextcloud uses GNU AGPLv3 and explicitly doesn’t use a CLA: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/contribute/HowToApplyALicense.md. They do this to prevent themselves from relicensing it. So they can’t suddenly take the code and make it closed source.

Regarding OpenOffice. I used to be a big fan of OpenOffice more than a decade ago, but LibreOffice has become my open source office suite since then.

Apache OpenOffice (AOO) might still work, but there is no significant development (see commits of the last year https://github.com/apache/openoffice/graphs/contributors?from=2025-05-01&to=2026-04-02&type=c). Only one person is committing on a daily/weekly basis, but this person is in their own words not a developer (https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pull/202#issuecomment-2561915795). Most of the commits are ‘cleanup’ commits where whitespace or comments are changed https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/.

LibreOffice on the other hand is actively developed. Others who are actually involved explained this better than I can:

• https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/
• https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

my advise: do not update immediately to a freshly released major version of Nextcloud. Just wait several point releases.

Nextcloud’s business model is service contracts. Which is going great. The origin story of Nextcloud is that ownCloud was too commercial (open core) instead of fully open source, so they forked it. I haven’t seen any moves by Nextcloud that has moved their focus from open source to hint at enshitification. Your claims are rather bold and without proof. Nextcloud doesn’t even use LibreOffice, but the online derivative Collabora. Also OpenOffice has been dead for more than a decade so I don’t know why you even reference that. Are you confusing this with the totally different OnlyOffice (‘only’ not ‘open’) which this news is actually about?

Their fork of OnlyOffice is actually because it is open core and they want it fully open source: https://github.com/Euro-Office/#euro-office-liberates-the-onlyoffice-code-base

Online LibreOffice exists and is called Collabora: https://www.collaboraonline.com/

Works great, for example in Nextcloud.

Right! I think I misunderstood the title. With ‘update’ you mean that you ‘bump’ your old post to get new attention to it?

Nextcloud is great if you want one service to provide all those functionalities.

Their All-In-One (AIO) provides a rather complete docker compose https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one.

One of the biggest reasons people complain about Nextcloud is that they update to new major versions too soon. Wait for several point releases or even until another major version is released (which only take several months). This will make updating much more stable.

What a negative post without any proof. This issue might’ve even been old and not related to a recent update. The post you’re quoting actually has a comment showing that this might be a bug already reported in 2023 https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/12137. In that sense a future update might just fix this problem. Also take a look at the changelogs of Nextcloud. They don’t just contain new features, but also many fixes and improvements/rewrites of old code to make things more stable, more maintainable and faster.

If you’ve been updating to new major Nextcloud versions right after release: stop doing that. Wait several point releases and updating becomes really stable.

The trick is to wait several point releases before updating. This makes it much more stable.

His wife and child are American. This American Life did a good background story: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/866/watch-out-for-that-tree/act-one-3

For some reason MediaTek hadn’t released a Linux driver for their popular MT7902. Really annoying. Please sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/mediatek-should-provide-a-linux-driver-for-mt7902

So where is the petition to keep the bikelane?

Nextcloud Notes can show your notes as raw text and as formatted markdown. You do need a Nextcloud server to connect to though.

(There is an issue for an accountless mode)

In Nextcloud you can use Deck or Collections for shared notes.