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When Immich originally joined FUTO two years ago, the news was received with a healthy level of skepticism. Who was FUTO? Why did they want to "acquire" Immich? Did this mean the beginning of the end for the product? Well, it's been almost two years now and we thought it would be fun to have a little retrospective on how things have played out since then.

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 29 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I would like FUTO more if they didn't veer off of open source licensing

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Gaben is great!

But I was thinking of the founder of Blue Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

According to Blue Systems employee Aurélien Gâteau, "Blue Systems does not have a business model, at least for now".

Nice

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago

Its still AGPL, so that is good! But for other things, yes.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] inari@piefed.zip 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Immich is AGPL, but other software they make, like the FUTO Keyboard, are under the nonfree FUTO License

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 12 hours ago

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).