FUTO — 2 years later | Immich Blog
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A review of how Immich has changed since joining FUTO in 2024.

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.

  • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
    515·
    2 days ago

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

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      291·
      2 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        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?

          • hanke@feddit.nuEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

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

            Nice

            • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
              3·
              2 days 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.

              • DeckPacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 day ago

                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.

                • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  11 hours ago

                  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.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.zipEnglish
        18·
        2 days ago

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

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
      52·
      2 days 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).