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Re: OpenWarp

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Post by touristtam »

arrsingh wrote: post #29
avaer wrote: post #28

I don't use Warp, but it seems to me they did something cool (terminal app), pivoted that attention into a profitable AI play, but a lot of people just wanted the terminal app. Now nobody knows what Warp is anymore, because they want to be an Agentic IDE and that's not what the users want. Do I have that right? I don't see what the point of this OpenWarp fork is though, other than adding more provider support. Couldn…

What was the terminal app though and what was special about it that Ghostty didn't already provide? edit: Found this one article (via google) that talks about the terminal. I guess it was a terminal that you could "prompt" to do things and it would figure out the shell commands. https://thenewstack.io/developer-review-of-warp-for-windows-...

Off the top of my head:

- The _block_ system where you could navigate up and down without scrolling the whole buffer rigidly - The tabbing system that actually works and doesn't feel clunky - The command prediction - The workflows (but that's now pretty much dead unless you really do not use AI)

Re: OpenWarp

#72

Post by blitzar »

SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

I would like to introduce my new venture, OpenOpenAi.

Re: OpenWarp

#73

Post by victorbjorklund »

nothinkjustai wrote: post #12
SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

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Try do create a game called ”Open Pokémon Go” and see if it works or not.

Re: OpenWarp

#74

Post by victorbjorklund »

arrsingh wrote: post #29
avaer wrote: post #28

I don't use Warp, but it seems to me they did something cool (terminal app), pivoted that attention into a profitable AI play, but a lot of people just wanted the terminal app. Now nobody knows what Warp is anymore, because they want to be an Agentic IDE and that's not what the users want. Do I have that right? I don't see what the point of this OpenWarp fork is though, other than adding more provider support. Couldn…

What was the terminal app though and what was special about it that Ghostty didn't already provide? edit: Found this one article (via google) that talks about the terminal. I guess it was a terminal that you could "prompt" to do things and it would figure out the shell commands. https://thenewstack.io/developer-review-of-warp-for-windows-...

Warp is older than ghostly and warp provides much more functions. Not only AI stuff but better editing of the shell (yea, I’m sure there is a way to get it in ghostty too), a built in run book where you can save commands (yes, you can say it should not live in the terminal)

Do you need all of them? Maybe not. Maybe. I used warp in the past (before AI) but now just Ghostty. But it required more customization to achieve just some of the stuff warp does.

Re: OpenWarp

#75

Post by ramon156 »

dh1011 wrote: post #65
taosx wrote: post #63

I feel this is the wrong way to go about things and I agree that it rude. Why not start by engaging with the warp project and see if some of this work could be upstreamed and if you like warp, target longevity?

My problem with Warp is that I have to create an account to use my local llm

This project is no different

Re: OpenWarp

#76

Post by ButlerianJihad »

BeetleB wrote: post #34
SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

Definitely disagree about rudeness. Only a trademark violation if a trademark has been registered. IANAL.

Here are some links to the official website of the actual United States Patent and Trademark Office, commonly and distinctly abbreviated "USPTO", whose domain name is duly registered at uspto.gov

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/90342560

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/90342558

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/88455403

Search for "wordmark" "warp", filter for currently live and 009, shows 44 results.

A search for "openwarp" yields 0 results, none dead, none historical; nowhere in the system is this unique name registered.

A banner at top-of-page offers various pointers for consumers on how to discern official US Gov websites from imposters, domain squatters, and name-stealers

Re: OpenWarp

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Post by SwellJoe »

skrtskrt wrote: post #69
SwellJoe wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Historically, it means a community of developers have decided to break with the old project for some reason. Jenkins is a community fork. Mariadb is a community fork. Joomla is a community fork. Illumos was a community fork. Rocky Linux is a community fork. Valkey is a community fork. This is a personal project by someone with no connection to the project or its code. It is misleading to claim to represent the Warp "…

Rocky Linux was a corporate fork with numerous dubious ethical decisions early on

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation is a benefit corporation founded by the original founder of CentOS and other CentOS developers in response to CentOS becoming a stream OS instead of a stable OS.

You'll have to be specific about what dubious ethical decisions you mean. I'm unaware of any, and I feel like I'm pretty tuned into this specific story.

Re: OpenWarp

#79

Post by gregpr07 »

timmg wrote: post #5

Maybe it's just me, but I'd love a "ThinWarp" -- just the terminal with the great UI, etc. I can run Claude Code there or whatever. But I personally don't need the AI in the terminal itself.

Why not just use ghostty at that point?

Re: OpenWarp

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Post by bestouff »

SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

Warp is already an Alacritty fork with no acknowledgement. I feel they deserve no respect for this.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939527

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