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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by kyrra »

jarjoura wrote: post #165
yalok wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

moonlighting is permitted by law in California (companies legally can't prevent you from doing it, iiuc), as long as there's no conflict of interest with your main job...

"no conflict of interest" is basically meaningless if your day job is writing software. These clauses you sign are quite broad in what that scope of conflict could be. Every company I've worked for has had very explicit rules that say, you must get written permission from someone at some director or VP level sign off on your "side project," open source or not. You might want to check your company guidelines around th…

Side projects that aren't a conflict of interest when working at Google is rather limiting. Likely less so for small companies.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by defen »

catlover76 wrote: post #124
arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Dell, HP, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Ford...it's not exactly unheard of to name your company after yourself.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by caseyohara »

defen wrote: post #182
catlover76 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Dell, HP, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Ford...it's not exactly unheard of to name your company after yourself.

Exactly. A huge number of household brands are named after people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_...

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by cholantesh »

catlover76 wrote: post #124
arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

IIRC, he was on his way out by the time the BSL shenanigans were underway.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by mitchellh »

PNewling wrote: post #179
xrd wrote: post #66

I'm really excited about Ghostty (and Zig mostly because of my exposure via ghostty). Until ghostty I hadn't really considered that a terminal would be a catalyst for innovation and even startups. But, libghostty is REALLY fascinating. And, all the good AI coding tools, IMHO, operate inside a terminal, and my head is spinning with ideas about hammering on the container for these new CLIs. (UWash CompSci strikes again…

Wow, I actually had no idea what he was a UW grad, let alone that I went there the same time he did... TIL

I did a for-profit course registration tool called uwrobot too if you or any of your friends were customers of that...

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by cholantesh »

mindcrash wrote: post #71
veverkap wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're not wrong, I think this undersells a little how much Mitchell has given of his time to OSS. Yes, he's fortunate that he doesn't have to worry about money, but even when he did, he still contributed openly and freely. That's part of what drew lots of us to HashiCorp in the first place - giving back.

It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account: "get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate." https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940 Take a good guess where the three commas…

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to express this thought more obnoxiously than DHH but here we are.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by sdqali »

alkh wrote: post #15

The only thing I am missing now from Ghostty is being able to open it in any open Finder folder with a keyboard shortcut(like standard Ubuntu terminal). Ghostty already provides Finder-specific GUI shortcut but you need to use a mouse. Otherwise, stellar work(especially the ease of configuring it) and congrats to everyone involved!

This can be done through Nautilus scripts.

> cat ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Ghostty

#!/usr/bin/env bash

ghostty --working-directory=$(pwd)

> cat ~/.config/nautilus/scripts-accels

F4 Ghostty

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by toomuchtodo »

CactusBlue wrote: post #119
conradev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/ I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client ( https://github.com/hackclub/burrow ) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization. The students have one big global Slack instance.…

MMW: this will likely end up being the SVB for nonprofits

They're using Column (https://column.com/) under the hood, so more like Stripe (payments + Atlas) for non profits I think? Still very powerful and material value of course on top of the banking partner primitive.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by notpushkin »

throwaway1389z wrote: post #139

It is amazing how Mitchell here talks about Rug-Pull after what his HashiCorp did with Terraform.

It was after the acquisition, no?

I mean, yeah, you can argue that he knew it would happen, but this way:

- he has $6B he can spend on other projects

- we have OpenTofu under LF governance, backed by virtually everybody who was using Terraform before

Win-win?

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