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.

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    3 hours ago

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

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      2 hours 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.

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      2 hours 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).

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      2 hours 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?

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