> When it comes to making money, the SublimeText developers can offer the core version of SublimeText for free, while they can sell a pro version with more adva

> When it comes to making money, the SublimeText developers can offer the core version of SublimeText for free, while they can sell a pro version with more advanced features targeted towards more advanced users and developers. Sublime has been known for years for its generous trialware, where a countless number of users just click past the popup suggesting buying. Such users have already decided they want all the features of Sublime just for free and the devs have allowed for that without restriction. The suggested scenario would ironically make the available free version worse. Plus there has already been a healthy plugin community for Sublime. I wouldn't doubt it might receive a boost from being open source but if we contrast with Atom editor, which recently officially EoL'd and was open source, it didn't make it a superior experience to Sublime ime, despite how much functionality the community was eager to replicate. Which isn't to say I would be against them going open source, just that I don't feel the reasoning is persuasive in the article.