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Great to hear :-)

Certainly the plan. Just a matter of priorities and time. I'm curious, what's so attractive about self hosted version?




As long as my critical infrastructure and tools depend on someone else's computer, I'm nothing more than a (potentially well-paid) sharecropper.

In fact, I think that's a valid answer to the question posed by the headline. Returning the power to the end user, and keeping it there, should be the most important priority for software developers. This is a social problem, not an engineering problem, but unlike many other social problems the solution will have to be engineering-driven.

In more concrete terms, that means being able to self-host your tools.


> As long as my critical infrastructure and tools depend on someone else's computer, I'm nothing more than a (potentially well-paid) sharecropper.

I heartily agree. There are so many new tools and things that are interesting concepts, that I don't try because there is no offline/self-hosted version available.

Current example (but can be replaced by a myriad of other tools, this is not specific to 'em): Notion. Apparently could be adopted into my personal knowledge management, has some interesting features most of the software I've seen so far does not, but why would I ever invest even a moment of time to pay the costs of using the system (let alone the membership fees etc.) if one day, poof, it's gone, like Frank Sinatra, like WiiWare, like Microsoft eBooks, like Google Reader.

> Returning the power to the end user, and keeping it there, should be the most important priority for software developers.

This is what we need to return to. Look at the open-source manifestos, FSF documents, heck even certain sections in the Windows 9x User interface guides and .NET Framework design guidelines indicate that the user should always be the focus, the user should be the one in control.


It's a requirement for most of the US DoD (though that's changing). Which is where I work


> (though that's changing)

Though I'm glad for the flexibility it will offer you...that doesn't seem like an awesome idea/trend.




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