Apparently in the past day, they’ve removed all the logos from the Microgrants projects and clarified that the grants are unsolicited
Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants
Submitted 1 day ago by First_Thunder@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
turtl@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Such a bummer that they took over Immich
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Immich is fine… full FOSS and alive. I just dont get you people.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
What keeps them from changing the Immich license from AGPL to FUTO?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What did they do to immich?!
P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Funded a team of devs to work on it full time.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So immch is dead before it even matured enough to be reliable? Sad.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Still struggling to understand what makes it “dead.”
individual@toast.ooo 1 day ago
eli5?
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is all in reference to this article.
FUTO is an organization that talks a lot of rhetoric about being some bastion of consumer rights in tech, but they’re doing a lot of shitty, shady, and downright evil things. Among them, FUTO has been in the practice of making small grants to FOSS projects (like ffmpeg and musl) and then plastering the FOSS project’s name and logo all over the FUTO site in a way that makes it seem as if FUTO is endorsed by said FOSS projects when that’s not the case at all.
(All this after doing everything in their power with their rhetoric to try to discredit and degrade the entire FOSS community. They wrote an “apology”, but even in the apology, they express their “disdain for OSI approved licenses”. Mind you, none of FUTO’s projects are Open Source.)
After that article came out just a couple of days ago, apparently they redid their site, I’d have to guess in an effort to address the concern that the way FUTO presented their grant program before implied endorsement by a lot of FOSS projects that didn’t endorse them in any way. I don’t think they’ve done enough, and there are tons of other reasons to think FUTO is evil assholes using consumer rights rhetoric to manipulate people in service to its (fully for-profit) bottom line.
Other concerns in the article include FUTO’s connection to explicit/proud fascists and using their platform to (even coercing Louis Rossmann into) spread fascist propaganda.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They weren’t even grants. They just donated money and said “look we’re sponsoring them!”, implying a relationship. As mentioned in that article, musl and ffmpeg (and probably everyone) didn’t even know FUTO was doing this.
Lojcs@piefed.social 22 hours ago
I’ve clicked through the links and the most ‘evil’ thing they did seems to be using a non-mainstream open source licence? Evil is getting contracted by Israel. Prohibiting other companies from profiting off your work isn’t evil.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Immich it licensed under AGPL 3 and the code is open - isn’t that FOSS?
I know some of their apps are licensed under a semi-open license of their own creation and that’s been touchy to say the least. But is it true to say that none of their apps are FOSS?
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks for posting this. Just uninstalled Futo keyboard and its neighboring speech to text app. Gotta hunt around for a replacement on both, tho I’ve been using Heliboard, which is okay. Still really bad at swipe predictions.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They secretly funded projects without letting the recipients know it was them funding and then added their names and logos to their site without permission. When someone spoke out against this, they harassed them. This is in addition to a lot of behavior supporting fascists.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I think Louis Rossmann’s heart is in the right place, his work for right for repair is genuine, his disdain for New York’s intolerable bureaucracy is completely understandable and justified, but it is leading him in bad directions and has been ever since he linked up with FUTO. Never trust a billionaire and never let them delude you into thinking they care about you or anyone. He is being used for his reputation and his audience and when they are done consuming those things for the billionaire’s cause’s benefit he will be left with neither one and the billionaire will move on without slowing down or shedding a tear.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
He’s always been more than a little petite bourgeoisie. Among all his spats with the city of New York, I’m sure you can find something where he was at fault, but we generally only get his side of things. Still, I think he’s been mostly a good advocate. FUTO is not the right place to do that.