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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
by 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 agoOpenSource 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 agoThere 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 :)