The charitable read is that the original project team willingly worked with Warp, knowing the direction they were going. I don't know any background on the drama FWIW.
we have a lot of open source library dependencies and are grateful to the folks who worked on them
"Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." <- This is you. This is what you sound like.
There's some undercurrent of something that seems to be driving a lot of the rage in the comments here. Anti-AI/OpenAI/"VC money"/"the rich"?
Have you ever contributed to open source?
Not everyone is doing it out of the expectation of a paycheck. For all the open source code I've worked on, my goal has unironically been for those using it to achieve whatever positive end they were trying to use my software for, and that's it.
The one time I did go further and agree to do some one-off changes for money it actually caused me a hassle that year as I had to account for it under the right tax treatment, I was nearly outside the "hobby" exception you can get.
I just checked and I didn't see a Donate/Contribute link for Alacritty.
Is there something I'm missing? Or do we have an entire thread full of people bashing on Warp for doing something Alacritty themselves do not wish to solicit?
As you point out yourself, it's not hard to throw up a Donate link if you're that kind of open source developer.