Ideas For a Server Based Calendar

[lxskllr]

and after you learned it, you've created a tool that isn't as good as the off-the-shelf product.

'grats!

Maybe, but it's all mine to do with what I want. No one can take it away, change it, or say I can't do something 'just cause'; not for any technical reason. You can't beat that kind of freedom.

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Although the Open Source Initiative suggests “the promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility,” this promise is not always realized. Although we do not often advertise the fact, any user of an early-stage free software project can explain that free software is not always as convenient, in purely practical terms, as its proprietary competitors. Free software is sometimes low quality. It is sometimes unreliable. It is sometimes inflexible. If people take the arguments in favor of open source seriously, they must explain why open source has not lived up to its “promise” and conclude that proprietary tools would be a better choice. There is no reason we should have to do either.

Richard Stallman speaks to this in his article on Why Open Source Misses the Point when he explains, “The idea of open source is that allowing users to change and redistribute the software will make it more powerful and reliable. But this is not guaranteed. Developers of proprietary software are not necessarily incompetent. Sometimes they produce a program that is powerful and reliable, even though it does not respect the users' freedom.”

For open source, poor-quality software is a problem to be explained away or a reason to eschew the software altogether. For free software, it is a problem to be worked through. For free software advocates, glitches and missing features are never a source of shame. Any piece of free software that respects users' freedom has a strong inherent advantage over a proprietary competitor that does not. Even if it has other issues, free software always has freedom.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html

 

[Red Squirrel]

Maybe, but it's all mine to do with what I want. No one can take it away, change it, or say I can't do something 'just cause'; not for any technical reason. You can't beat that kind of freedom.

Exactly. Just look at how Youtube is constantly pulling off people's videos for stupid reasons. Google (or any other cloud provider) could easily start to decide to pull stuff off people's file drives, or Gmail, or even calendars. You have no control.

This thread does show the sad state of computing and what things are headed to. The fact that it's that hard to find self hosted solutions for simple things yet there's lot of "cloud" versions and everyone just says to use cloud is not very promising of where we are headed.

 

[lxskllr]

Success!

I got nextcloud up and running on my system. I got a little hung up on the documentation, especially regarding the database, but it's now fully functional. The calendar looks like it'll work pretty well as is, but I'm gonna see what else is available.