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I would like FUTO more if they didn't veer off of open source licensing
I agree, but I'm still glad some rich people are spending tons of money to make some free and very useful apps for me.
Ideally they should be doing it like the millionaire that partially funds KDE though.
Are you talking about gaming's lord and savior who casually drops dough on FOSS people and doesn't talk about it everywhere on the internet?
Gaben is great!
But I was thinking of the founder of Blue Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems
Nice
The guy (Clemens tönnies) is an asshole nonetheless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems
Biggest meat manufacture in Europe, bad conditions for animals, rotten meat, very tightly knitt family with strange mafia like structure.
Yes he is funding development and that is great but fo r him it is nothing more that saving some pennies on taxes.
I am not trying to defend him or anything, I know nothing about this guy.
But, according to the Wikipedia article, he stepped down from tönnies, he only inherited the wealth from his father, his brother now runs the business.
So he doesn't have that much to do with the tönnies business.
Interesting, I'll read up on that.
Edit: yeah no. He stepped down but holds a significant share in tonnies. And just for kicks: if you speak German read the controversy section on Wikipedia. Atrocious.
If I understood right, Clemens tönnies is the uncle, deeply involved in the slaughtering and with the racism controversies. A real asshole. Clemens tönnies Junior is the one funding the software and he sold all the shares of the slaughtering company to his brother a decade ago. Maybe a better person?
Okay, I overlooked the junior ... Sorry. Will adjust my posts
Its still AGPL, so that is good! But for other things, yes.
Do you mind elaborating more on the topic? I see them stressing that the licence is AGPL and it didn’t change. Is there anything else that is not obvious from the first glance?
Immich is AGPL, but other software they make, like the FUTO Keyboard, are under the nonfree FUTO License
And yet immich is still ahold, so I guess futo has been a clear win so far for immich.
While I would prefer gpl3, still futo so far has delivered only good stuff. (I also use futo keyboard and voice typing).