No, and again, that's not the point the author made. > I’m more than happy to pay good money for good tools. For something as important as my code editor, I’d

No, and again, that's not the point the author made. > I’m more than happy to pay good money for good tools. For something as important as my code editor, I’d even pay a yearly subscription fee if it means the developer can keep churning out updates. and > I can totally live with an unfinished and slightly buggy piece of software being labelled as “final” and released as Sublime Text 2.0, but going off the grid for almost half a year and then completely abandoning that version branch, putting all efforts into 3.0 – a paid update – instead, is simply a dick move. Key points here: "I’d even pay a yearly subscription fee", "going off the grid".