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ST becoming open-source is one thing, making it freemium another. I was talking about the latter. Does freemium really work at all for anyone? Gets you new use

ST becoming open-source is one thing, making it freemium another. I was talking about the latter. Does freemium really work at all for anyone? Gets you new users quickly but then 1 in 10,000 converts. This works for established companies as they can weather the freeloaders with piles of cash from other parts of the business. Or in the case of VC-backed companies, from the money fountain (better not ask Spotify about that though). I just can't see how a small company depending on a single product would benefit from this model.

dvirsky 10y ago
For IDEs there's a clear path here - for a company, even a small startup, <$100 per developer is really no biggie, even if no private person would pay that. I used to pay for PyCharm (via my employer) when I worked mainly in Python because I needed the extra features. BTW Sublime are more or less Freemium right now, even worse - you don't HAVE to pay, you just get those annoying messages. It's practically a donation model right now.