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 by these companies. On the other pole are the P2P advocates, like Urbit and some blockchains. Here the cry is for every person to run a shared version of some program on their own node in the network.

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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 our software, we will never remove features, implement ads, paywall functionality, or violate your privacy. However, this costs money, and providing high-quality products that respect users is only sustainable if we can meet our second goal.

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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; back then, there was a distinct differentiation between spyware and software. Once upon a time, these things weren’t one and the same.

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" … the obvious meaning for the expression ‘open source software’ is ‘You can look at the source code’."

Richard Stallman

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