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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 Arcuru »

tcdent wrote: post #10

I'm making an effort to support Open Source projects that I use everyday; much in the way I support creators on YouTube via Patreon with small monthly commitments, so it's a welcome opportunity that GhosTTY has made that easy to accomplish.

I give a lot of money to the free things I use as well, but even if I used Ghostty I'd struggle to give them any money since the founder is extraordinarily wealthy.

Please fund projects that actually need it, and don't voluntarily gift money to a literal billionaire.

> I 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.

Original post: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

Hey articles like this could get some value with a two liner about what the tool is, tty can mean several things, so clearly stating its function would help gain additional users that aren’t already familiar with your product :)

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by sevensor »

asim wrote: post #54

Kudos to Mitchell for doing it. Unfortunately the "rug pull" issue has been severely crippled by OpenAI's about face turn on their non profit status, but knowing Mitchell, he's not about the money, power, status, etc so the project is in good hands and you can expect this to stay free.

> A non-profit structure provides enforceable assurances: the mission cannot be quietly changed, funds cannot be diverted to private benefit, and the project cannot be sold off or repurposed for commercial gain

Yeah, OpenAI has shown us that this is more negotiable than we might have believed. Fortunately nobody will ever think terminal emulation is a trillion dollar industry, so I think we’re ok.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by thewebguyd »

purpleidea wrote: post #84
simonw wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a copyleft license can add friction that reduces the amount of value your software can create in the world. I'd honestly rather Apple and Microsoft ripped off my work if it meant that my work provided more utility to a larger number of people.

> Using a copyleft license can add friction that reduces the amount of value your software can create in the world. That "friction" is by design. It prevents someone else from screwing over the users. The people that oppose copyleft are those it was specifically design to protect against.

It's sad, people have really been shitting on copyleft licenses the past few years, when they are critical to ensuring our computing freedoms are preserved.

Copyleft protects the user. The friction is, like you said, by design. It ensures that something that started free, stays free, and can't be rug pulled out from under you.

Big monied interests have been trying, and succeeding, in changing the discourse around free software away from free and to simply just "open source" and moving toward permissive licenses, specifically so community effort can be extracted and monetized without contributing back.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by heipei »

mindcrash wrote: post #36
bos wrote: post #3

Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few years.

Rather thank IBM for paying Mitchell an outrageous amount of money for Hashicorp, so he can devote all of his time on awesome projects like Ghostty without ever thinking about sustainable income ever again. So thanks, IBM! <3

I'd rather he'd still be working on Nomad to be honest, but Ghostty is a good consolation prize ;)

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by memco »

cpach wrote: post #82
anorwell wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But only in the the tip (nightly) build. I'm somewhat tempted to switch to them for this.

A while ago I compiled Ghostty from HEAD, because it had a bug fix I cared for. It was a very stable and pleasant experience. No hassle whatsoever.

If you'd like you can also use `tip` as the update channel to get the nightly build binary without having to compile it yourself: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#auto-update-channe...

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by VerifiedReports »

quesera wrote: post #88
VerifiedReports wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I didn't know Ctrl-D did anything.

Ctrl+D is the ASCII End Of File (EOF) marker. Software that takes text input should interpret that as the end of the input. Shells decide that end of input means it's time to exit. Terminals usually decide that if the shell exits, there's nothing else to do and so close the window. macOS Terminal.app instead prints "Process exited", which I can't quite fathom the value of. I guess it's marginally less confusing than…

Thanks. It exists, and I found that I already have it active. In Settings, it's under Profiles / Shell and the control is

When the shell exits: - Close if the shell existed cleanly

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