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Basecamp says goodbye to public cloud in growing challenge to established narrative

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David Heinemeir Hansson sets out thinking behind the company’s decision to leave the cloud.

Ruby on Rails creator and Basecamp partner David Heinemeir Hansson has published a blog headlined “Why we’re leaving the cloud” that indicates gathering momentum behind the ideas we set out in the cover feature of our quarterly magazine Orbit.

Hansson’s blunt conclusion is: “We’ve seen all the cloud has