this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Who are some of those people? I'm still trying to get my bearings about this entire thing, I never heard of it before yesterday.
Louis Rossmann is a prominent right to repair advocate on youtube, I don't like his videos personally, but he's usually on the right side of things.
FUTO is a company owned by Billionaire Eron Wolf, they release several pieces of software under their own proprietary licence, that they originally tried to claim was "open source". When they got called out on it not being open source they literally tried to redefine open source. Although they've since backtracked, and decided to use the term "source first" instead, it makes the whole organisation seem incredibly sketchy to me.
Rossman explained the dealio... daddy owner wanted this, it is his money.
Not ideal and there was some shoddy marketing. We still got a free app out of it.
But yes, this app is not OS and people should stop fucking arguing that it is.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
With that being said, i don't see an issue with mentioning it as a viable alternative to OS but saying it is OS is bad faith behavior.
As far as I can tell, no one in the second comments thread who was deleted was doing this. They were talking positively about FUTO in ways that still acknowledged that it wasn't open source.
I've reached the limit of my caring about this issue, but you can search the modlog for particular users whose comments in the second thread were deleted, if you want to check what they were saying about it.
my comment was removed just for saying FUTO has strong voice to text and that's why people like it.
Rossmann's billionaire patron is Eron Jokipii (aka Eron Wolf). As you can see here he comes off as a bit of a bumbling rube; it's possible that he sincerely doesn't understand the harm in what he is doing since he's one of those people who became unfathomably rich by selling a company to Yahoo in the late 90s and has probably been surrounded ever since by yes men who can't afford to contradict him.