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I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out
by mxcrossr 5y ago
I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out
- ddingus 5y agoWell, it is not far off a good game and some DLC.
- emteycz 5y agoIt's not really much though... Software engineers make that in an hour or two, that's reasonable price for 3 years of updates of the primary tool... And it's a business expense. And as the sibling comment says, a game costs about the same.
- obdev 5y ago$100 in an hour or two? Only in a small part of the world.
- emteycz 5y agoOkay then, five or eight hours, or a week.. for 3 years of updates - still peanuts considering that this is programmer's primary tool and business expense deductible from tax base.
- michaelmrose 5y agoTo be fair in most of the developed world it is more like 4-6 and there is always Emacs, Vim, Atom, Code for free. An embarrassment of riches for nothing.
- rsiqueira 5y agoIt depende on the country. In my country (Brazil, where minimum wage is less than US$ 1/hour) a software developer earns about 1/4 or 1/5 (or less) compared to US salaries for a similar job. Spotify, Netflix and YouTube Premium here are much cheaper than in US.
- emteycz 5y agoI mean contractors - my bad, I should've been more clear... I'm used to everyone being a contractor. Employees should get license from employers. Is contracting rate also that low in Brazil?
- forgotmypw17 5y agoI agree, I think it's hugely discriminatory against majority of world.
- novok 5y agoTBH, the rest of the world will just pirate, and if they make a good income eventually that is more the international standard, they can buy with their own cash. I don't think sublime has top of the line DRM.
- perryizgr8 5y agoI live in India, and I find the price a bit too high. But that does not mean I will pirate the app. I will use other free alternatives until I can afford the program I want to use. So, asking Sublime to reduce the price to cater to people like me is a valid request, IMO.
- mxcrossr 5y agoSublime can be downloaded for free though. It just bugs you every few days asking if you would mind paying. That’s my situation now. I’d love to through some cash their way since it’s a great product, but it’s just a bit too steep.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoSeems ignorant of currency-free or low-currency lifestyles, barter culture, gift culture, volunteerism, etc.
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- amatecha 5y agoAny chance you can get your employer (if you have one) to buy you a license? Some employers will help out their staff by buying licenses for IDEs, or textbooks or stuff like that.
- Hendrikto 5y agoIt's worth noting that business licenses work a little differently than personal licenses: > Business licenses are sold on an annual tiered subscription basis, at $65/seat/year for the first 10 seats, $60/seat/year for seats 11-25, $55/seat/year for seats 26-50, and $50/seat/year for any further seats.
- michaelmrose 5y agoLife is expensive and getting more expensive every day. The median home price is twice as expensive as when sublime released for $70 in 2008. Everything from a car to a loaf of bread is more expensive and your developer needs pay for housing and loaves of bread too. As it stands the new permanent price of 99 is only 41% higher than in 2008.
- Elinvynia 5y agoYet wages didn't rise at the same speed as those expenses...
- itsoktocry 5y agoThe wages in the type of work for which a Sublime Text 4 license is required most certainly rose since 2008.
- blackfawn 5y agoI agree with this very much. Both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge are quite cost prohibitive, particularly so for individual users. I've mentioned this here and elsewhere before and often others will attempt to deflect this with getting an employer to cover it or that it isn't much for a developer, but that only holds true for a smaller subset than they realize. One can buy a copy of Windows 10, an entire operating system, for about the same price (or often considerably less!)
- gilbertbw 5y agoThat’s not a fair comparison. Windows has much more general appeal than a text editor, so many more sales to pay off R&D.
- Glavnokoman 5y agoТhere is a story about a Jewish tailor whom it took 1 month to sew the pants. So the customers tells him Look it took god 7 days to build the world and you were making pants for a month... And the tailor answers Yes, but look at this world and now look at these pants... Same here.
- benfrain 5y agoI laughed. A lot.
- Axsuul 5y agoIt always sucks to see whenever the comparison is made between pricing offered by a small developer team vs. an enterprise with hundreds of thousands. Microsoft could likely sell Windows for free and still profit from the ecosystem network effects and upsells of its cloud offerings.