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This is fantastic news! > As Emacs and Vim have demonstrated over the past three decades, if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text
by jwcrux 12y ago
This is fantastic news!
> As Emacs and Vim have demonstrated over the past three decades, if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text editor, it has to be open source.
I agree whole-heartedly. In fact, I don't believe that editors like Sublime Text would have such a large following if not for the extended "free-trial" functionality.
It will be exciting to see where this project goes, and I think open-sourcing the rest of the editor was a great move.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 12y agoAgreed, amazing news. This is the announcement I've been waiting for. I've long been worried that with a closed source core, the editor would of fallen prey to the same issues that plague closed source editors. With that out of the way now, I'm excited for what atom will become.
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- jaegerpicker 12y agoHe literally addresses Sublime in his comment.
- pytrin 12y agoYou're confusing "free" in pricing with "free" in freedom. A free trial creates a completely different type of community than free and open code. GitHub could have just provided a closed binary for free if they wanted to go the Sublime route.
- ubercow13 12y agoI'm pretty sure he's not confusing anything