I think it's interesting that all recent contributions to this "open source alternative" are done by a tailscale employee. Wonder what's preventing them from making the official client open-source
I’m curious if anybody else sees tailscale / headscale in the same way that I do — I was avoiding signing up to tailscale because I didn’t want to be locked into a proprietary platform, but since learning that headscale exists and is “good enough”, I’m now happy to be a tailscale customer safe in the knowledge that I can fall back to self-hosting when needed.
(Yes the company _could_ do a sudden 180 and start intentionally breaking compatibility and forbidding that their clients be used with third-party servers - but the risk of that doesn’t seem much different than the risk of an open-source alternative being abandoned)
>Wonder what's preventing them from making the official client open-source
Probably having a full time job that people will actually support? Open source software doesn't reward effort.
Headscale does not have a nice UI, its basically all CLI usage. There's very good reason to use Tailscale for companies and there's also good reasons for Tailscale to support an opensource implementation of their control server, I've seen it from both ends as people go either way, it's a symbiotic relationship and probably one of the best examples in open source today.
