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@over_clox The lack of redistribution is what's causing projects to disappear and die, vendor lock-in, walled gardens, bricked devices.. you clearly have no idea what you are talking about
I'm just gonna drop this link here, make of it and FUTO in general whatever you will. They actually are privacy centric..
https://youtube.com/live/OJPmbcU-Vzo
"Privacy centric" is irrelevant because because this is the free software movement, not the privacy movement (also, this is not reddit, we have a higher standard of conduct here).
Further reading on free software philosophy. Most relevant is why software should not have owners (1994) as this is fundamentally where FUTO disagrees with the open source/free software movement.
I also made a prior comment here about the fundamental difference between "fauxpen source" licenses like FUTO's and real FOSS licenses. You seem to characterize it as "stealing code and profiting off it" but the strength of free software is in collaboration and community, not so much competition, so sharing is considered a virtue here. I talked more about it here in a reddit comment referencing my previous lemmy comment.
This will probably be my last comment on FUTO/Grayjay in this thread, since I've said all I intend to say several times here and on reddit. I might make a master post about the problems of fauxpen source at some point.