Just learned about the FUTO keyboard. The source code license, the AI features and the requiremen to activate my microphone, made my BS/malware alarm go bzzz. So I looked up FUTO, and apparently it is an organization similar to FSF (but different).
So what is this FUTO thing? Are they good and trustworthy? Or is this just some new drug fueled eccentric crypto AI BS from Texas?
Is it “safe” to use the FUTO keyboard?
Different objectives from FSF. FSF wants everything to be free as in freedom. FUTO wants to show people that making money from software should not explicitly require anti-consumer practices.
The two often clash because they both redefine generic terms to support their specific objectives.
They both believe that open source software is inherently a requirement for consumers moving forward.
I use standard FOSS where I can, but I hope FUTO concepts catch on in the spaces that are still vehemently opposed to the idea of FOSS. At the very least it helps boil the frog. I just don’t want to see the two fighting because that’s a waste of energy right now.