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by meowface 50 days ago
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 am very much not right-wing and frankly I loathe rightists, but I am also very much not a socialist. Though I'm not a libertarian either, to be clear; I just don't have an instinctive revulsion towards corporations who use open source code - or corporations who have more restrictive licenses to prevent this very thing, like Elasticsearch or MongoDB - or towards AI companies for training on public things, or really towards corporations in general. I am perhaps the rare left-leaning corporate shill.)

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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.