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Thanks for answering!

>tl;dr is that the desktop app (including remote SSH sessions) is free to use with a permissive license (no account needed, no subscription, commercial use is OK, etc), but using Positron in a server mode does require a paid subscription.

I feel the FAQ would've been better off with this as an answer to a separate question ("Is Positron really free?").

First, this information is hard to infer from the text you have there.

Second, I wouldn't wouldn't know to look for this information in a question about the server mode. I don't know what it is before I look deeply into your product!

Before that, I want to know what is actually free about this platform, and what isn't. Then I can learn what the server mode is.



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