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I think you could also ask the question in a different way. What is the market for closed-source text editors? We have open-source text editors, and freeware(?)
by edwintorok 12y ago
I think you could also ask the question in a different way.
What is the market for closed-source text editors? We have open-source text editors, and freeware(?) closed-source ones.
So who would buy a closed-source text editor?
(Talking about a text editor here, not an IDE)
So then why not just open-source it? Seems to me there are only drawbacks in keeping it closed.
- sanswork 12y agoI've paid for textmate and sublime text because they were better than their immediate competition for what I use them for. I know lots of other people who have paid for one or the other. I have a really nice tmux + vim workspace I use a lot but for unfamiliar codebases I find exploring a lot nicer in sublime.