Hi everyone,
we had this discussion half a year ago here already:
I’m also looking forward to the new post from Andrei so let’s see what he says.
What about open sourcing the app with a license which only allows Andrei to offer self hosted services to the public (similar to the people from https://workadventu.re)? So everyone could contribute, the project is unlikely to die and Andrei still gets a revenue for his initial work? And everyone who is willing to self-host (or doing this already) can just go on with it and its fine. Maybe also have two levels of support – paid one and community support?
Some thoughts on software in general:
I don’t think closed source software has a real future either. I totally understand that we all must pay our rents but regarding the risk of a closed source tool being abandoned or stopped (for good reasons) you always have to think about before using it what happens in these cases. With OpenSource we don’t have this kind of risk (but others). As we always “own” the software we can decide how to proceed and everyone can take over the maintenance.
With Everdo the only reason I decided for using it (and yes, I paid for it and would also pay a small fee for having it properly maintained) is that it’s designed to still own your data. I get it out of the tool at every time in a structured form and there are no licensing servers or tracking tools involved (as far as I noticed). So this is what the tool does right – but on the other side there are important things missing for quite a while like e.g. ARM builds:
Long story short: I really would love to see this project having a sustainable future and if I can help I will. But at the moment it doesn’t look like there’s any progress since months and no (or very little) communication is not a good sign too 