Louis Rossmann released an app called "Grayjay" today, and he deceivingly calls his app "open source" in his video talking about the app.

The license he is actually using for his app is nonfree, noncommercial and has many restrictions. It is nothing more than "source available", which is not even a real term or movement at best.

Louis' organisation Futo gives grants to many free software projects like Peertube, GIMP and Blender and also the Free Software Foundation itself.

I am very disappointed in this decision because especially someone like Louis knows better than this and should really set a better example.

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nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 Louis' projects so far are dubious...

I get weird vibes from Louis... Like, he'd look like the kinda guy using Brave or something. He also calls out the prior GrapheneOS main dev... He doesn't look the kinda guy who would be supporting FOSS..

This is heartening to read knowing people aren't fooled by an influencer who openly uses Kiwi Farms making no secret of their support for harassment trying to portray themselves as a victim for being appealed to privately for clout.

Also it sounds like thier federated identity system is not as robust as nostr's nsec/npub system.