3 ms·
> I hope they don't discontinue Atom Atom is MIT licensed, GitHub can't "discontinue" Atom so much as stop paying their engineers to contribute to the project.
by objclxt 8y ago
> I hope they don't discontinue Atom
Atom is MIT licensed, GitHub can't "discontinue" Atom so much as stop paying their engineers to contribute to the project. After that it's whether there's enough impetus outside the company to continue the work (I suspect there probably is, Facebook are heavily invested in Atom).
- bdcravens 8y agoHow many build from source as opposed to downloading binaries from atom.io?
- ReverseCold 8y agoSomeone can just make `libreatom` and start distributing binaries. The MIT license is nice like that.