most developers hate paying for development tools. thats just how it is. I payed for Sublime a long time ago for 2 reasons: 1) if I'm publishing plugins for it

most developers hate paying for development tools. thats just how it is. I payed for Sublime a long time ago for 2 reasons: 1) if I'm publishing plugins for it, I should probably have a legit license for it. 2) It's the best text editor out there for me, period. I use it enough I owe it to Jon to buy a license. That said, I doubt I'll pay for any future versions licenses. I don't want to rely on closed source tools, and the editor/IDE arena has always been one of the areas I can't seem to go totally FOSS. Hopefully atom continues to improve; I might switch over when 1.0 comes out.