FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund

Re:FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund by ahamm on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:23AM (#35914264)

How is FUTO funded/who are the primary donors? This wasn't clear from the site.

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Re:FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund by hello_computer on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:39PM (#35918600)

I would also want to know this prior to any interaction. There is still so much money in this space, and the risk of your innovation being harvested / co-opted / subverted along with it. At this point Mozilla seems to exist solely as an anti-trust insurance policy for Google. How are we to know if FUTO is any different?

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Re:FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund by larossmann on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:23PM (#35923768)

Eron Wolf, he created Yahoo Games and then was a seed investor in whatsapp(as well as a programmer for a short period). I interviewed him here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHF84gyVWg

He also encouraged me to start the right to repair non-profit and donated $1,000,000 to it 3 years ago.

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Re:FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund by ahamm on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:37AM (#35926683)

thanks for the insight!

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