They’ve been featuring projects on their page that they display their donations on, projects that did not know or outright refused, without their consent or understanding.
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houjou@jlai.lu 2 days agoMay I ask why do we hate FUTO?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
May I ask what the fuck FUTO is?
hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The company that employed the core Immich devs about a year ago to give them a full-time salary to keep working on Immich. Founded and funded by a millionaire whose stated goal is to try and make a viable business model out of software that doesn’t abuse its users
nycki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
they’re wearing the clothes of “open source” but they run like a proverbial nazi bar: drewdevault.com/…/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.h…
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
Except the person who wrote that, regardless of the actual issues with FUTO, cannot be trusted
mmmac@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The above post isn’t the first I’ve heard bad about FUTO. GrapheneOS has also spoken out against them
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think there could be more to it. Louis Rossmann had personal issues with the lead dev there a year or two ago due to how they interact in their forum, and I think he had some great reasons to be concerned. Since then the lead dev has stepped away as project lead, but I doubt the bad blood is completely gone.
I think it’s a bit suspicious that they don’t mention what feature(s) FUTO wanted. Given their interaction with other projects, I’m guessing they wanted a “supporter” badge for people who have bought the software (no change in functionality other than the badge). I’m guessing also that due to their interaction with Rossmann, they’re uninterested in clarifying, esp. if it would put FUTO in a better light if they did.
Then again, maybe FUTO is a bunch of scumbags. It just seems the slant against them is so much stronger than the actual negative impact from a handful of repos having source-available licenses instead of FOSS licenses.
Scirocco@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thank you for linking this.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Why do you say they’re unreliable and can’t be trusted?
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, I read this article twice now, and the only identifiable wrongdoing on FUTO’s part is donating to FOSS projects without using their “institutional practice”… Which is a bizarre complaint.
The article is rife with “something ain’t right at FUTO”, but fails to wrap words around that statement.