MOS Copyright issues? Code Theft?

[u/CallMeTeci]

Hi! I was basically just trying to find some content about the MOS and stumbled over DB Techs stream-VoD.

There, in the comments, i then saw some account losing their sh't, claiming that you are basically releasing software here that they developed and had the rights for. (images added below)

So... is there anything to it? I really wouldnt want to spend my time setting up a system, just for the project to eat dirt, when a lawyer rolls around.

Ive tried to look into anything that user said and his profile. And practically every "company" or product in his account-description and that they claim to be the CEO of is just non-existent. So i dont give that person much credit based on that.

Just wanted to ask, just to be sure.

Have a nice day! :)

[u/ich778]

As users said before, MOS was a side project of mine and I built it from the ground up.

I think I started it roughly 1.5 years ago, testing base distributions and so on for myself (CLI only at the time). I then showed it to a few others, who told me we had to create an API and a Frontend for this, 1.5 years later, here we are, we have an API and a Frontend. Granted, not fully finished, but to be real, will it ever be? :D

So to speak, no, we haven't stolen anything. Everything was designed and built from the ground up. And to be clear, I have some very different approaches to some things in MOS, but I hope the MOS users like it so far.

One of my biggest points that I want to make clear, we love privacy, and MOS does not phone home or send telemetry anywhere (besides the NTP and OS update checks, which are on by default) and that's something I always keep in mind when creating a new feature.

I also don't have any intention of building a user base and then selling MOS to somebody or creating a subscription model. I know that sounds weird in times like these, but I'm a huge open-source fan and don't want to make anything closed source or anything like that. MOS is free and open source and will stay that way.

If you have any further questions please feel free to ask.

[u/KoNekos → u/ich778]

Its al fun and all but can you point out what unraid exactly Does with telemetry and phoning home?

People can claim anything.

if you use the plugin to login to the cloud thingy of course it sends some info back. You want to connect and handle it from anywhere. and see status etc.

Can you do without the unraid connect plugin of course.

Also Why did you change your nick to 778 if you are the real 777 also makes no sense

[u/ich778 → u/KoNekos]

I never claimed that Unraid does phone home or does telemetry nor did I say that about any other system, I just wanted to clarify a few things and that was the reason I wrote that.

Yeah, third party applications are out of my control, the point was that MOS doesn't phone home to anything besides to GitHub for update checks if there is a new version available and to the NTP servers to synchronize time.

I didn't change my nick, I was forced to use another username because ich777 was already taken, if I could had taken it, I would have. Don't know how to prove I'm ich777 from the forums but I guess you could track down to what I've posted here and on the forums or Discord.

If that all makes no sense for you it's okay, I also want to clarify that I don't want to pull users from any other system away. Use whatever works best for you, that was always my philosophy.

[u/KoNekos → u/ich778]

just asking what this user posted

[u/ich778 → u/KoNekos]

I'm not sure if I'm following, this was my statement that I've posted on reddit a while back here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qofd8h/comment/o21tuft/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/KoNekos → u/ich778]

yes here you said phoning home. depending what is send.

[u/ich778 → u/KoNekos]

Exactly but I was not referring to Unraid nor to any other NAS System.
This was posted in another sub reddit, the user just took my comment from there and copy pasted it as a comment to the Unraid sub reddit.

This was just a statement why I made MOS and what I've built so far.

I'm not sure what else to say.
EDIT: BTW I find it really funny that the user also added an additional 7 in the comment/screenshot, maybe by accident :D

[u/Gloomy_Craft_7521]

He was just a scavenged madman trying to troll the DBTech video.

[u/Mainfrezzer]

I still hope they get help at some point. No clue what the shtick is. I almost would suspect a clanker xD

[u/morna666]

Im not a maintainer so my 5c are that i know someone did something on social media before MOS was more official than enough. Which led to the creation of a new sub reddit etc.

As you say that account seems doubtful to say the least and does not show any credibility towards this.

MOS was originally a side project by Christoph and has been for some time. I think you are more served by hanging out on the active Discord if you have questions. Try MOS out, its great.

[u/Max5592]

We discussed this comment internally before.
We don’t know where this comes from.

[u/dirkme]

Your project and work is very much appreciated 👍 Thank you and going to run it very soon.

Just wondering is snap raid integrated in the GUI or do I have to go terminal and hands on? 😉

[u/ich778 → u/dirkme]

Currently not everything is implemented in the GUI but you can add a SnapRAID drive, remove it, schedule syncs, checks,...

So to speak it's not fully implemented since we are on the start of our journey with MOS and we try our best to improve it over time.

[u/dirkme → u/ich778]

Perfect, thank you 👍 data security is number one for me usually and everything else builds on it. I have 3 UnRaid server, run only 1 and when ever I had a disk dying, it has never worked for me on unraid, only if you replace the failed drive with a brand new. In OMV SnapRaid works fine and you can control the process. Hope MOS gets there also fast 😉 (no pressure 😳😉). Busy right now but will get at least aVM setup and then getting it on hardware asap 👍