@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ I learned very early (by 2004) that Silicon Valley was up to no good. I wound up
At that time, me and everyone I knew understood open source to just mean "the source code is available". This is coming from someone who spent 6.5 years at Yahoo! utilizing open source software every day of my life. I programmed using emacs and Linux. My servers ran on FreeBSD and Linux. The software I wrote (Yahoo! Games) was enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world and I had quite enjoyed just making good stuff. I had no idea the OSI even existed.
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. None of my friends in Silicon Valley were interested.
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. Instead the problem is getting worse."
