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Another way of framing this is that we don't know what the actual cost of a license will be, and you can get one for $15. Comparatively, Sublime Text 2 is $60 a
by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
Another way of framing this is that we don't know what the actual cost of a license will be, and you can get one for $15. Comparatively, Sublime Text 2 is $60 and Textmate is €45.
Even though they say it'll be open source, that doesn't exclude the possibility of a commercial license that could be far more expensive.
Maybe this is a bad argument to make. But if it interests you, $15 isn't a massive expense if you think you'll get a lot out of it.
- freditup 14y agoDarn, and here I thought open source projects were supposed to be free. I think the pay what you want model would be appropriate - and I think that may be what Granger hinted at, not sure.
- dkersten 14y agoDarn, and here I thought open source projects were supposed to be free. Well, there's two core parts to open source and free software and neither have much to do with not having to pay for it (though that often is the case). First, there's the availability of source code and second is free as in freedom, not as in beer. But we don't yet know what license this will be released under, so we don't know what rights or restrictions may apply. Presumably, by the sounds of the text about Light Table being open source, it will be a standard Free and Open source license (GPL seems most likely to me) and he also says that the paid license will probably apply to prebuilt packaged releases, so if you don't mind building everything yourself, you may well get it for free after all. I think the pay what you want model would be appropriate I agree, for Free & Open Source Software, pay what you want seems like a very suitable model.