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I really hope Sublime goes open source someday

by empyrical 11y ago

honest_joe 11y ago
I really hope people start paying more for software someday.
- empyrical 11y ago
  I paid for Sublime - it's my favourite editor by far. There are ways for companies to support themselves while having their offering be open source though. And I think Sublime might need to eventually to compete
  - honest_joe 11y ago
    OpenSource often means easy to use without paying. It gives you choice to use but not pay. I am not against open source but most of the time people religiously screaming that this and that must be open source are the ones that never pay for software. Oh and also replying to the guy above. Tell that to dozens of OSS tools that had to be supported by real companies because people were not that willing to donate. Look at grsecurity for example, tmux, and the other ones i do not remember that Stripe donated 100k to.
  - superuser2 11y ago
    There is a way, selling support. Do you really see people paying for commercial support of Sublime?
    - kybernetyk 11y ago
      >There is a way, selling support Which gives you the incentive to make the software less user friendly so more people pay for support :)
- codemac 11y ago
  Open source != no cost of distribution: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html I work with someone who has gotten me thinking a lot more about what software I do and don't pay for. He pays for any software he uses "daily". The payments are either donations to open source projects, service fees, or software purchases.
  - superuser2 11y ago
    In reality there would be a CentOS and everyone would use that instead. Although this would not be much of a change for Sublime in particular, which is commercial with purchase optional (just occasional nagging.)
- yarrel 11y ago
  There's no contradiction between the two.
- superuser2 11y ago
  Open source makes a lot of sense for things developers use in common (i.e. language runtimes, compilers, libraries, etc.) because they can all "give back." This is entirely consistent with developers selling application-specific software to other people.
- deleted 11y ago
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I really hope Sublime goes open source someday

honest_joe 11y ago

I really hope people start paying more for software someday.

empyrical 11y ago
I paid for Sublime - it's my favourite editor by far. There are ways for companies to support themselves while having their offering be open source though. And I think Sublime might need to eventually to compete
- honest_joe 11y ago
  OpenSource often means easy to use without paying. It gives you choice to use but not pay. I am not against open source but most of the time people religiously screaming that this and that must be open source are the ones that never pay for software. Oh and also replying to the guy above. Tell that to dozens of OSS tools that had to be supported by real companies because people were not that willing to donate. Look at grsecurity for example, tmux, and the other ones i do not remember that Stripe donated 100k to.
- superuser2 11y ago
  There is a way, selling support. Do you really see people paying for commercial support of Sublime?
  - kybernetyk 11y ago
    >There is a way, selling support Which gives you the incentive to make the software less user friendly so more people pay for support :)
codemac 11y ago
Open source != no cost of distribution: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html I work with someone who has gotten me thinking a lot more about what software I do and don't pay for. He pays for any software he uses "daily". The payments are either donations to open source projects, service fees, or software purchases.
- superuser2 11y ago
  In reality there would be a CentOS and everyone would use that instead. Although this would not be much of a change for Sublime in particular, which is commercial with purchase optional (just occasional nagging.)
yarrel 11y ago
There's no contradiction between the two.
superuser2 11y ago
Open source makes a lot of sense for things developers use in common (i.e. language runtimes, compilers, libraries, etc.) because they can all "give back." This is entirely consistent with developers selling application-specific software to other people.
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