Glad you like it!

Yeah I limited the community version to free operating systems. Because if you are using something like RHEL or Windows Server, you are probably using it for some commercial purpose. Not always but most of the time.

As I mentioned in reply to another comment of yours, the main difference in my opinion here is that I am posting this as an individual one-man company compared to something like Oracle. And the Oracle free tier still requires you to sign-up and provide your data. This free version does not have such a commitment.

A lot of projects are sharing status updates and development news and various platforms, some on lemmy as well. On average, I post status updates every 1-2 months when there is something to share. And yes this is self-serving, I am advertising my project after all.

I think blocking me would be a bit overkill? You could also just downvote the posts you don’t want to see and move on, you don’t have to read my posts if you don’t like them. That is up to everyone themselves. People who are interested in these posts can do the opposite.

Wow, I missed quite a discussion up here when I was away.

I would argue this is part of this community, a showcase and status updates of projects that can be useful for the selfhosted community. I understand that there is a focus for completely free projects in here, but some tools showcased here also include a paid plan. In this case I’m trying to make a living out of this, so there is a payment model in place. I limit my posts to only major updates, so the post frequency is dependent on the development speed.

There is a free community plan available that covers many use cases, there is no need to pay for XPipe unless you want to fully commit to it and use all of its features.

This refers to having an enterprise license for Windows. If you have such a Windows product key enabled, the OS name will show as Windows Enterprise or as Windows Datacenter.

The goal is to just separate the users into personal and commercial customers, because you would have to spend quite a bit of money for these Windows licenses and keeping such systems running.

But in practice, you can just attempt to connect to any system from XPipe and it will tell you whether if you need a license for that.