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