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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by allarm »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #94
Muhammad523 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Donating to the free software you use, even a little, is good.

Not saying its not, I guess the core of my argument is that people are outraged that these guys raised 50 million… how much of that is going to employees and infrastructure? Is the owner sitting on 50 million in his personal bank account? Because the outrage feels very premature, not to mention they just open sourced the project when they really did not need to under any obligation. Far as I can tell they also did a…

This whole thread is just bonkers. Dude stop pretending you don't understand the situation here. It's been explained to you multiple times.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by sroussey »

jdiff wrote: post #41
giancarlostoro wrote: post #39

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So if I use vim or emacs for free, or VS Code for that matter, I have to hunt down the maintainers and pay them? Do I need to empty my wallet for every project I use for free? Because that's not sustainable for normal people, let alone businesses.

If you use them for free to spawn a 50M business, yeah, give back a little. Nobody's saying every user should open their wallet, let alone "empty" it as you hyperbolate.

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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by shimman »

meowface wrote: post #141
shimman wrote: post #7

Still feel extremely negative towards this company for tweaking an Alacritty fork then using that to get a $50million venture round then giving zero money towards Alacritty, an open source library that the founder completely owes their career too. Not shocked they partnered with another company that is fine with raping the commons for profit, OpenAI. They definitely did some git cleanup to remove this fact too going…

The license is the license. I don't know what you expect. I think, to be a good sport, they ought to mention in an About page that they're forked from Alacritty, with a clear link and thank you/appreciation note for the foundation code, but anything beyond that is both unnecessary and should not ever be expected. (Side note but I find it odd how anti-corporate and anti-AI HN has become starting in the past decade. I…

You don't understand why tech workers are suddenly visibly, even violently, angry at an industry they helped usher into power whose leadership hold deeply anti-human and anti-democratic views?

Honest Q just for you: have you been in a coma for the last 10 years?

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by meowface »

shimman wrote: post #173
meowface wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The license is the license. I don't know what you expect. I think, to be a good sport, they ought to mention in an About page that they're forked from Alacritty, with a clear link and thank you/appreciation note for the foundation code, but anything beyond that is both unnecessary and should not ever be expected. (Side note but I find it odd how anti-corporate and anti-AI HN has become starting in the past decade. I…

You don't understand why tech workers are suddenly visibly, even violently, angry at an industry they helped usher into power whose leadership hold deeply anti-human and anti-democratic views? Honest Q just for you: have you been in a coma for the last 10 years?

I detest the "tech right" very deeply. But most tech execs and employees voted for the Democratic candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Hatred should be directed at the actual people involved. The Andreessens of the world.

I see no evidence the creators of Warp have done anything illiberal or pro-Trump.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by KetoManx64 »

I found out today that if you block internet access to the warp terminal through opensnitch it will refuse to start, I imagine it does the same thing if you don't have internet access?

I ended up uninstalling it after that. Just silly that my terminal is sending a bunch of analytics and also refuses to start of there's no internet.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by KetoManx64 »

mpyne wrote: post #137
devin wrote: post #113

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I thought the negative sentiment being shared here was hyperbolic, but you look absolutely ridiculous in these comments. "Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." <- This is you. This is what you sound like.

> "Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." Have you ever contributed to open source? Not everyone is doing it out of the expectation of a paycheck. For all the open source code I've worked on, my goal has unironically been for those using it to achieve whatever positive end they were trying to use my software for, and that's it. The one…

You're in the minority. Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github, and I see articles constantly about projects being shut down or archived because the developer couldn't afford the time investment anymore due to lack of income. I keep a list of open source software I use so I can donate every couple of years to pay them for their work, and I've run into maybe 2-5 projects out of the dozens of donations I've done over the years that either don't have a donate option or just tell you to donate to a charity instead (eg. Unlock Origin)

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by mpyne »

KetoManx64 wrote: post #176
mpyne wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." Have you ever contributed to open source? Not everyone is doing it out of the expectation of a paycheck. For all the open source code I've worked on, my goal has unironically been for those using it to achieve whatever positive end they were trying to use my software for, and that's it. The one…

You're in the minority. Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github, and I see articles constantly about projects being shut down or archived because the developer couldn't afford the time investment anymore due to lack of income. I keep a list of open source software I use so I can donate every couple of years to pay them for their work, and I've r…

> You're in the minority. Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github

I just checked and I didn't see a Donate/Contribute link for Alacritty.

Is there something I'm missing? Or do we have an entire thread full of people bashing on Warp for doing something Alacritty themselves do not wish to solicit?

As you point out yourself, it's not hard to throw up a Donate link if you're that kind of open source developer.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by poelzi »

hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

Overwhelming and overloaded. Terminals need to be 1 thing first: fast, and there it fails miserably.
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