Comment by bachmeier

I was initially interested in Positron, until checking out the license:

"Positron is licensed under the Elastic License 2.0, a source-available license. This license makes Positron available for free to everyone to use, build on, and extend for personal, academic, and commercial use. Its primary restriction is that you can’t host Positron as a service to third parties without Posit’s agreement. This restriction is necessary for us to build a sustainable business around Positron while also offering it free of charge to the community."

"You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality in the software, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by the license key."

This is not a recommendation on whether anyone should use Positron. I think it's fair that people know it's just another piece of proprietary software with a license key. Posit is a public benefit corporation, which sounds nice, but you're still subject to the same games any other for-profit private company plays with its customers.

(I use Posit Cloud in my teaching, so my interactions with their products are as a customer, but I use RStudio, which is open source.)