> They are open source developers, giving away free software as a gift. There is no duty here.

But actually there is! They didn't start from scratch. They took another very successfull and beloved project with the promise "to make it better". There is some promise here and the duty not to make it worse.

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margalabargala 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Better" is subjective. They made it better...for themselves. Then gave it away so people who share their opinion, had the opportunity to choose to use it.

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macintux an hour ago | parent [-]

> Then gave it away so people who share their opinion, had the opportunity to choose to use it.

How many neovim users were made aware that the software would proactively delete their decade-long file history?

	▲	margalabargala 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Probably no more than a rounding error away from zero.

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owebmaster 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would be really surprising if they could make it better for literally every user. The perpetual undo is just better handled by git.

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brookst 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And this obligation lasts… for the rest of their lives?