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Avalonia.Controls.Markdown should be free for everyone #21295

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AI Agent development is booming right now, and Markdown has become the de facto first-class format for Agent text output to humans. All kinds of GUI applications are rendering Markdown to build their Agent frontends. If Avalonia gates this control behind a paywall, it is essentially missing the window of the Agent development wave. I don't understand the rationale for choking off access here — the moment most users know that Avalonia's Markdown control requires a paid subscription, they will simply pivot to Web UI tech stacks without a second thought.

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Open it to everyone

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