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After moving to Austin, and in the aftermath of some gross abuses by the Tech Oligopoly, I finally started finding people who also cared about solving the problem in 2021. Perhaps I should have found them sooner but I find WoW more fun than networking at alcohol parties. I still had never heard of the OSI or knew about their definition.
After moving to Austin, and in the aftermath of some gross abuses by the Tech Oligopoly, I finally started finding people who also cared about solving the problem in 2021. Perhaps I should have found them sooner but I find WoW more fun than networking at alcohol parties. I still had never heard of the OSI or knew about their definition.
We started out by making substantial grants to open source projects and funding open source companies. It's fair to say we got bad results. I determined that I could pour everything including my last penny into open source and still barely make progress solving the problem.
We started out by making substantial grants to open source projects and funding open source companies. It's fair to say we got bad results. I determined that I could pour everything including my last penny into external open source projects and still barely make progress solving the problem.
We've since pivoted to building software internally. FUTO now exists to make things good for programmers who want to create non-abusive software. We're getting better results.
We've since pivoted to building software internally. FUTO now exists to make things good for programmers who want to create non-abusive software. We're getting better results.
