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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
by zachlloyd 5mo ago
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.
- lucidia 5mo agoif you’re actually grateful for their support maybe you could support them with some donations out of that 50 million
- nixpulvis 5mo agoAlacritty doesn't accept donations.
- shimman 5mo agoThis isn't feedback. This is saying your company and your leadership are absolutely toxic to the tech community if this is how you treat people that made you wealthy. It's disgusting behavior.
- lucidia 5mo agoyou 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.
- ukblewis 5mo agoThis 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
- shimman 5mo agoYou don't understand why people are upset at an individual that is proudly proclaiming that 100s of millions of Americans will become unemployed and there is nothing to do be done about it? In a country where being unemployed is a literal death sentence? What kind of responses do you expect in return? I'm sorry but everyone in his orbit needs to be publicly shamed as well. These people are ghouls and we're seeing them create the next generation of ghouls in real time.
- lucidia 5mo agolol 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.
- whateveracct 5mo agowe can't say CEOs have bad morals now? Altman has trash morals
- scubbo 5mo agoLol, lmao, shut up idiot. (exactly as lowbrow of a response as your nonsense deserves)
- blitzar 5mo agoToss a coin to your Witcher
- devin 5mo agoI sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?
- ktm5j 5mo agoI mean, if they have a working relationship with each other then I guess the alacritty folks don't hate their guts. That's meaningful from my perspective. Also remember that the $50m is not revenue that they can use however they want. They have an obligation to their investors to make money with it.
- elcritch 5mo ago> They have an obligation to their investors to make money with it. It's bit more nuanced. The company management have fiducial responsibilities to the investors but also have responsibility to the company itself and its employees. E.g. Milton Friedman's shared-holder primacy is a crap philosophy and one of the most damaging ones to actual healthy free market economies. For example, in corporate bankruptcy in the US workers get paid before shareholders. The courts have also tended to favor the company management as long as they're acting reasonably, so I've read. IANAL, but it shouldn't be too hard to say hey this support contract for a core piece of software reduces risk for us by X, Y or helps get Z feature.
- ktm5j 5mo agoFinance definitely isn't my thing, so thanks for the info.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoSo if I use vim or emacs for free, or VS Code for that matter, I have to hunt down the maintainers and pay them? Do I need to empty my wallet for every project I use for free? Because that's not sustainable for normal people, let alone businesses.
- peschu 5mo agotalk is cheap ...
- pear01 5mo ago> Totally understood on the feedback [...] we are grateful for their support So are you going to donate to them or not?
- nixpulvis 5mo agoAlacritty doesn't accept donations.
- koolala 5mo agoDoesn't that make not supporting them even worse???
- nixpulvis 5mo agoI feel obligated to chime in here a bit. I was the Alacritty member who was contacted and who offered some feedback. I have absolutely no hard feelings. Would it have been a good idea to charge them for my time, IDK. I was in between a research role and a new job at the time and more than happy to help. Do I feel like I missed out on something, maybe a little bit, but that's more on me than them. I'm sure if I had angled for a position working for or with them, they would have considered it seriously. Would it be nice to have more support for Alacritty, perhaps. But there are a lot of conflicting opinions on what to work on and what features are good for the project, so it's not as simple as just adding money and people. I was always hoping alacritty could be a minimal library others could use, and I'm glad it has turned out that way.
- zachlloyd 5mo agothanks for the support here. we are very grateful for the help you all provided initially, and if you are interested in sponsorship for the repo, we are also happy to provide some. alacritty is awesome
- junofan 5mo agoThe takes in this thread are insane. There’s nowhere else to put this comment given the framing so I’m putting it here. OSS isn’t a charity movement.
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