https://lemmy.ml/post/35472063

The original post is about a supposedly privacy focused keyboard that sends your voice and messages to OpenAI for speech to text. I posted saying I use the FUTO Keyboard as it’s open source and does voice to text on-device. There unsued a discussion about if the FUTO Keyboard is open source, as the license prohibits commercial use. After people sharing thoughts on this for a day, the mods removed the thread for being offtopic and promoting proprietary software. Even if you think that the license prohibiting commercial use makes it not open source, it certainly doesn’t make it proprietary.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    I suppose I was today years old when I learned that the general consensus among software people is that proprietary software means software with any restrictions, not just software which is entirely black-boxed.

    I was unaware of any ongoing conflict about FUTO and thought that it was a widely supported alternative

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      26·
      8 months ago

      Futo is not open source but it is a fine product.

      Which is what I said in that thread and my comment was also removed.

      This is a bad faith behavior IMHO

      We really should stop commenting on ml ran subs IMHO

      People say fake shit all the time without having their comment censored.

      There is nothing wrong with futo being thrown in along with Foss keyboards. It should be disclosed that it is not fpsss and normies can make their own decisions.