Developers are frustrated paying for heavyweight IDEs like Visual Studio despite the availability of free compilers, so they need a fully featured, zero‑cost development environment. CodeForge delivers a cloud‑native, extensible IDE with enterprise‑grade debugging, refactoring, and CI integration, all available for free with optional paid add‑ons.
If he wants to make money he needs to sell licenses, not give them away for free. To that end, making the free version AGPL is generally a good move. It ensures people can get hooked on your product and when they start working at corporations they have to pay to keep using it.
> I don't love this framing among software developers. This framing is very transactional, when many of the authors are explicitly trying to make their work free.This software was "free" (as in libre) and costed $0 and until now, it was licensed under AGPL 3. But contrary to one common misbelief in open source and free software, the maintenance is not free at all.> The best thing a software dev can do is donate some of their time to do more open source development, and in that way we all benefit from having more and better open source tools. If someone wants to exchange code for money there ar
Any potential customers that matter have already been advised by their lawyers to not touch AGPL with a 10 meter pole. This includes Google:https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...This extends way beyond the superficial toxic license stuff. There is a lot of legal ambiguity around copyleft licenses and most companies just don't want to deal with it unless it's absolutely unavoidable.
well, visual studio isn't free. Code is free, and at some point it got so good that folks didn't feel the need to pay for the main suite.
Seems like the path is to use LLMs to launder code from VC funded efforts and their public codebases into codebases with a copyleft license. Otherwise you have to wait for the rug pull before taking action (Terraform and Vault->OpenTofu and OpenBao). It is fair use to train and create derivative works after all, as courts have ruled so far.
I've been using Herdr for a while now, but I'd like a multiplexer that's also a meta-harness that I can connect to remotely. I know others have setups that work, I just haven't quite figured it out yet.
> if the users would like to see it maintained for a long time, they would donate $$$.That's a bad-faith dilemma, you know it. The users can want to see it maintained while being relatively destitute from recent tech layoffs. It's not criminal to have a tight pocketbook, and that's why free devtools succeed while paid ones rot. There will be always be a FOSS version of Herdr, and thanks to vibe coding it will probably retain feature parity with the paid version. Everyone is happy here, you're the one making it a sob story.> Seems like you would want him to work for freeClearly he's content rel
What you’re missing is the status updates. Herdr applies pattern recognition to detect the status of an agent running inside, so you get updates on all your agent threads at a glance.
This is true, unfortunately. I've have had to walk away from a client because their software-illiterate lawyer didn't want me to build with copyleft dependencies.It wasn't the only red flag in this case, but frustrating nonetheless.
Yeah, it’s great but with this, it’s probably the time to find an alternative, I probably can see where this will be in a year or so.
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