Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

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All operations can be handled by reading and writing les on the local disk, and data synchronization with other devices happens quietly in the background. (Page 5)

An important aspect of data ownership is that you can continue accessing the data for a long time in the future. (Page 8)

However, in the cloud, ownership of data is vested in the servers, not the users, and so we became borrowers of our own data. The documents created in cloud apps are destined to disappear when the creators of those services cease to maintain them. (Page 43)