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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by jen20 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:47PM (#44965639)
> Some of us just want a good editor for free.

Sums up the problem neatly. Everyone wants everything for free. Someone has to pay the developers. Sometimes things align (there is indeed a discussion in LinkedIn about Apple hiring the OPA devs today), mostly it doesn’t.

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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by TheCraiggers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:19PM (#44965978)
> Someone has to pay the developers.

Agreed. Although nobody ever mentions the 1,100+ developers that submitted PRs to Zed.

And yeah. I know what you mean. But this is the other side of the OSS coin. You accept free work from outside developers, and it will inevitably get forked because of an issue. But from my perspective, it's a great thing for the community. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants here.

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