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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Funded by a (somewhat controversial) tech billionair, see a recent interview with him here: https://youtu.be/5UHF84gyVWg

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it matter? At the end of the day it's still money put in to open source.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, because there's a desire, conscious or unconscious, to keep that money flowing, which means pleasing the investor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

If that happens, it will be forked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is he controversial? the only negative thing I've seen about FUTO is the proprietary license grayjay is under.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Some of the views he expressed in the past sounded a lot like Elon Musk before he went full bonkers recently. But I guess it could be worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I know nothing about this person, but on multiple occasions I’ve had the thought that if I was a gazillionaire, I’d sponsor a bunch of open source. Maybe this is that? I’ll choose to stay hopeful (though I’m kinda dumb about this sorta stuff)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Why does it matter? The devs make the program not the investor.

The only reason I would refuse the tech was if the investor would try to change the direction of development or is giving out money from questionable sources...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The other partner in FUTO is Louis Rossman. Maybe one cancels out the other?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure Louis is just another recipient of FUTO's funding, not "the" other partner to this dude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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