(What Comes) After FOSS?

5 points by alper

lproven

Impressively awful PDF viewer there.

I downloaded and skimmed it. It's very verbose and discursive, in arts/academic style, and I didn't get a lot from it TBH, I'm afraid.

It has not had much "airplay" but the most interesting post-FOSS move I've seen recently is an Android keyboard.

https://keyboard.futo.tech/

It's a multiply-interesting confluence of tech, IMHO.

It is a new effort at a swiping keyboard, since Microsoft owns the best and killed it
It used a local LLM but it's privacy-first, offline -- the opposite of most LLM tech
It has a very interesting license: the source code is public, but the license is restrictive right where all the current ones aren't: it's free so long as you want to make free stuff, but if you want to make money off it, you need to pay.

The license should profoundly upset both the Stallmanite Free Software folks and the ESR/Perensian Open Source folks. Good. They deserve it. They've done nothing to help programmers get paid. Both camps just help megacorps get rich. This is the opposite of their supposed duty.

pgeorgi

This is the opposite of their supposed duty.

I think the supposed duty of the Free Software camp is to ensure access for users: It's RMS' AI Labs printer trauma cast into a license. Developers barely play a role in it.

singpolyma

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has been victorious

Um. What? No?

might i propose editing the link to point directly to the PDF? the PDF viewer on the page itself is subpar in my opinion.