Most importantly, we believe that making Zed open source will make it the best product. Considering that all of Zed's users are programmers, it makes the most sense sense to open Zed to the maximum pool of talent. Motivated by our desire to connect with you all on a human level, we're launching a new Zed feature called Zed Channels, which will make it easy for developers anywhere in the world to write code together in real time just by sharing a link.