Like you said, I don't think it has to do with the open-sourcing per se. The open sourcing is good news. I'm not a TextMate user, but from what I've seen, this

Like you said, I don't think it has to do with the open-sourcing per se. The open sourcing is good news. I'm not a TextMate user, but from what I've seen, this is confirmation that the TextMate author isn't going to release TM2 even though he advertised it as an incentive to buy TM1 several years ago, and has subsequently continued to promise.