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I don't think something as fundamental a developer tool as a Terminal makes sense as a proprietary software. That doesn't mean nobody will use it, obviously, but it does mean that you guys are sacrificing a lot of potential users for...I have actually no idea why Warp isn't open source. What's the issue? What are you afraid of?

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A lot of pros use Terminal.app. As far as I know, that's not open source.

Would they still use it if it forced you to login online?

Hi, Jess from Warp here.

As a response to your questions, please see how we’re thinking about open source here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400

As a side note, we are open sourcing our extension points as we go.

The community has already been contributing new themes (https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes). And we’ve just opened a repository for the community to contribute common useful commands. See: https://github.com/warpdotdev/workflows

if it's not fully opensource, most actually technical people won't use it because they know better

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