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by haswell 901 days ago
I hear what you’re saying, and I agree that running something locally is appreciably different than using something hosted elsewhere.

But I think it’s critical to be precise about this. Open source is still open source, and this designation is still meaningful even if an open source product provides a hosted version. The downsides of letting someone else host something are independent of the the open/closed source status.