5,000 times, and that's only if you hold TextMate responsible for the entire income. A more informative valuation of TextMate would be to compare your productiv

5,000 times, and that's only if you hold TextMate responsible for the entire income. A more informative valuation of TextMate would be to compare your productivity with it versus a free alternative such as Emacs, vim or Eclipse. It may well be worth much more than $50 to you, and therefore a great deal, but probably nothing like a 5,000X ROI. : Pedantry concludes.