Running a law firm on Free software
The gist
Lawyer Neil Brown published a 2026 update on running decoded.legal on Free software.
The biggest change: he dropped Nextcloud for Syncthing and radicale.
How it unfolded
- 2022Brown wrote about his experiences running decoded.legal on Free software after the first year or so.
- 2024Brown published an update on running the firm on Free software.
- Nov 7, 2026LavX News published an article on Brown's 2026 update, noting the biggest change was dropping Nextcloud for Syncthing and radicale.
Key terms
- Free software
- Software licensed so users may run, study, change and redistribute it freely, a matter of liberty rather than price.
- Debian
- A free, general-purpose operating system built by a worldwide volunteer project and the base of many Linux distributions.
Source: Wikipedia