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Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants (futo.org)
submitted 1 day ago by First_Thunder@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apparently in the past day, they’ve removed all the logos from the Microgrants projects and clarified that the grants are unsolicited

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What did they do to immich?!

[–] P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Funded a team of devs to work on it full time.

Also made it shareware.

[–] isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Pls explain. I cannot see how it is shareware with an AGPL licence behind it and full code published. Or is it just fud ?

[–] P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry, that’s what I grew up calling paid software that was free to use in practice. That effectively how Immich is presented now. There is a button to buy a license which changes to an (optional) supporter badge once purchased.

For the record, I am very happy with the software and paid for a license. I can see why people are bothered with Futo’s language but I personally can’t complain with how they’ve handled the project itself.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

fud, it's "shareware" in the sense that there's a dismissable popup that asks you to pretty please pay 100$, but it's AGPLv3 and no features are locked behind the paywall.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Huh. So anyone could maintain a fork or patchset and distribute builds that were feature-for-feature identical to Immich but with no nag screens. Just an interesting thought.

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 6 points 9 hours ago

You can already do this with their custom css. I did it for about 5 minutes and then realized paying $99 was the right thing to do. It's a reasonable ask on their part.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

So we need to make a patch then. Not great but fine.