Why would you need to have "faith" in an open source product? You can always get an older copy or build it yourself, or it could be forked by the community if it's popular enough and the original gets completely abandoned.
For that matter, why does an open source product need to make money in the first place?
> Why would you need to have "faith" in an open source product?
Well, even ignoring the central servers which are required for all of Zed’s collaboration features, I’m not personally interested in maintaining my own persona fork of Zed
So that means I need to “have faith” that someone, whether a paid team of developers or an unpaid group of volunteers, will continue developing, or at least maintaining the project.
Or that it gets abandoned in a state that I can keep using it indefinitely, I guess.
> For that matter, why does an open source product need to make money in the first place?
That’s a fine question in general, but in the announcement they pretty clearly say that they are hoping to make money with unspecified future subscription services, not that they don’t need to make money
For that matter, why does an open source product need to make money in the first place?