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KASROZ: An Optimal Keyboard for Swipe
Why not QWERTY? QWERTY was designed in the 1800s for two-handed mechanical typewriters. As a layout, the key optimization places common bigrams on opposing levers so adjacent strikes wouldn't jam....
Lee Miller
Shifting Perspectives on Purchasing Open Source Software
At FUTO, we want to make open-source software development sustainable. We believe that developers should be paid for their time and energy spent on their projects, and have the legal ability to...
Joe OcchioneroThe Future of Software Distribution
Software centralization exists on a spectrum between two poles. At one extreme are the hyperscalers like Google and Amazon. Most of the Internet's population lives within gigantic server blocks owned...
Adam JesionowskiBeyond Donations: FUTO's Vision for a Sustainable Software Ecosystem
FUTO has two simple goals. Number one: Produce delightful software. The software we build should provide a welcome contrast to Silicon Valley corporations packed with ads, tracking, and spyware. With...
FUTOEthical Data: Balancing User Privacy and Trust
We get that privacy policies of most all modern tech companies are intentionally vague, long, and abusive to consumers; these are written to confuse rather than inform you. In the 90s, nobody cared;...
Louis RossmannThe Internet and Social Media
FUTO is developing a vision for social media and the future of publishing online. The web was created to allow anyone to publish ideas and art. In the 1990s everything was posted by creators on their...
Eron WolfThoughts on 'The Open Source Definition'
" ... the obvious meaning for the expression 'open source software' is 'You can look at the source code'." Richard Stallman --- I learned by 2004 that Silicon Valley was up to no good. I wound up...
Eron WolfFUTO's The Open Source Definition
Open source just means access to the source code. The end. For FUTO software we add a few extra restrictions and freedoms. Things that we don't want you to do with our software: 1. Change our payment...
Eron WolfWhat Does FUTO Believe?
This is our code of conduct and how we arrived at it. Failure of the Free Market FUTO is all about individual freedom. Yet we have to concede that the free market is currently failing as it applies...
Eron WolfWhat is FUTO?
FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation. The Problem We used to...
Eron Wolf