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After years of WoW, LoL, random gigs, and personal programming pursuits, I started putting the concept of FUTO together around 2017. The goal of FUTO was to remedy the abuses of big tech through software development. The primary tenet being that the people need to be in control of the computers they own, not companies and governments. None of my friends in Silicon Valley were interested.
While conceptualizing FUTO, my first thought was always "Why hasn't open source solved this problem?" Billions of people have access to the programming tools now and the problem is getting worse.
While conceptualizing FUTO, my first thought was always "Why hasn't open source solved this problem?" Billions of people have access to the programming tools now yet the problem is getting worse.
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.
