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Let me be clear though that I wasn't talking about price. Rather I was genuinely surprised to learn that it wasn't open source, perhaps because so many of the t
by sho_hn 15y ago
Let me be clear though that I wasn't talking about price. Rather I was genuinely surprised to learn that it wasn't open source, perhaps because so many of the top editors are, because of its persistent popularity in these circles and its dalliance with open solutions, and because I would expect someone starting a new high-end text editor today to want to put the project on solid long-term footing, which to me implies open and community involvement.
- sho_hn 15y agoIt's pretty interesting to see that I'm still getting down-voted for posts that I think, at this point, do a fairly reasonable job of communicating their point, do it in a civil manager and pose a legitimate question re: expectations of the use of the open source paradigm in certain kinds of software. I wonder if it's really just because I'm saying something negative about a popular piece of software, and people exercise the downvote purely because they disagree rather than have quality objections?
- mhartl 15y agoI've just upvoted the downvoted entries to try to counteract this. The downvotes were not deserved in my view. Nevertheless, as I noted in a commend a couple of months ago, they still sting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422539 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422539