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.
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.
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).