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Re: Warp is now open-source

#51

Post by bluGill »

petcat wrote: post #34
unshavedyak wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you, BUT, we have licensing right? Ie couldn't the author have chosen a license that would have prevented this - if they had cared? I'm unsure if we should lose sleep over something the author likely chose. Its their right to not care how the code is used, maybe we should abide their wishes? Is there perhaps there's an issue with licensing? Eg there's no easy license akin to MIT for small time devs, but…

The biggest scam that was ever pulled was convincing software developers that the GPL was somehow bad and out of vogue and that open source should prefer BSD, MIT, Apache, etc instead. And now we have entire threads like this of people crying because some company used someone's software exactly as the license allows . It's a shame, but there really is no sympathy for projects that choose the wrong license. Stallman k…

The biggest scam is GPL convincing people that the license will keep things open source. Every try contributing to Chrome's web engine? It started as GPL khtml, but good luck doing anything as google controls it. Meanwhile FreeBSD manages to get plenty of contributors.

Don't get me wrong, license is important. However it doesn't have nearly the effect many people claim.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#52

Post by redlewel »

Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#53

Post by throwaway613746 »

AirMax98 wrote: post #3
ahmadyan wrote: post #2

Congrats on open-sourcing warp. May i ask what was the decision process behind this? What was the benefit of open-sourcing warp, as it is already a mature and established product. Also did devin cli had any impact on the decision to open-source warp? Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours?

> OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new, open-source Warp repository. Big bucks from OpenAI is my guess. I could guess the strategy is to try to take a shotgun approach at Claude Code.

[dead]

Re: Warp is now open-source

#54

Post by koolala »

zachlloyd wrote: post #8
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…

Warp founder here. Totally understood on the feedback - one thing I would call out is that we actually worked with Alacritty on the initial implementation and they were super helpful and we are grateful for their support.

Doesn't that make not supporting them even worse???

Re: Warp is now open-source

#55

Post by lucidia »

ukblewis wrote: post #42
lucidia wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you shouldn’t be surprised though. most people in tech only care about money and you already know if you align yourself with Altman, your morals already aren’t in the right place.

This should be banned on this platform. If you are against Altman or his values or morals, that is fine, but calling others who do feel aligned with him immoral… well that kind of hate leads to attempts on Altman’s life of which we have already seen one. You better stop with this behaviour before you encourage others to do actions that you will regret

lol you’re a moron. Altman actively promotes neofeudalist ideas and has shown time and again he does not care about safety or human wellbeing. Sociopathic narcissists like him will be the downfall of our species.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#56

Post by lern_too_spel »

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #48
petcat wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest scam that was ever pulled was convincing software developers that the GPL was somehow bad and out of vogue and that open source should prefer BSD, MIT, Apache, etc instead. And now we have entire threads like this of people crying because some company used someone's software exactly as the license allows . It's a shame, but there really is no sympathy for projects that choose the wrong license. Stallman k…

It’s not that complicated. Most of us program for work, and can’t use GPL stuff at work. People were optimizing for being the most useful and therefore getting the most use.

Alacritty is an application. Most of us use GPL applications at work.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#57

Post by whateveracct »

ukblewis wrote: post #42
lucidia wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you shouldn’t be surprised though. most people in tech only care about money and you already know if you align yourself with Altman, your morals already aren’t in the right place.

This should be banned on this platform. If you are against Altman or his values or morals, that is fine, but calling others who do feel aligned with him immoral… well that kind of hate leads to attempts on Altman’s life of which we have already seen one. You better stop with this behaviour before you encourage others to do actions that you will regret

we can't say CEOs have bad morals now?

Altman has trash morals

Re: Warp is now open-source

#58

Post by u_fucking_dork »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #56
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not that complicated. Most of us program for work, and can’t use GPL stuff at work. People were optimizing for being the most useful and therefore getting the most use.

Alacritty is an application. Most of us use GPL applications at work.

Neither I nor the comment I replied to are talking about Alacritty

Re: Warp is now open-source

#59

Post by Flimm »

petcat wrote: post #34
unshavedyak wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you, BUT, we have licensing right? Ie couldn't the author have chosen a license that would have prevented this - if they had cared? I'm unsure if we should lose sleep over something the author likely chose. Its their right to not care how the code is used, maybe we should abide their wishes? Is there perhaps there's an issue with licensing? Eg there's no easy license akin to MIT for small time devs, but…

The biggest scam that was ever pulled was convincing software developers that the GPL was somehow bad and out of vogue and that open source should prefer BSD, MIT, Apache, etc instead. And now we have entire threads like this of people crying because some company used someone's software exactly as the license allows . It's a shame, but there really is no sympathy for projects that choose the wrong license. Stallman k…

The GPL would not have prevented the scenario that the top-level comment complained about. Nothing in the GPL requires rich downstream projects to send money to poor upstream projects. That's by design. The four freedoms that Stallman preaches intentionally permit distributing the software to free riders.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#60

Post by alokedesai »

redlewel wrote: post #52

Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.

Warp is still a terminal, but it also has a coding agent.

no requirement to use it--and you can turn off all of the AI features if you don't want to use them at all

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