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Let's say you were working on a plugin and spent I don't know how many thousands of man-hours developing it. Now let's say that the creator of ST was hit by a c
by davorb 11y ago
Let's say you were working on a plugin and spent I don't know how many thousands of man-hours developing it. Now let's say that the creator of ST was hit by a car. You would be fucked.
- coldtea 11y agoWhereas if the lead developer of Emacs was hit by a car? Lots of open source projects have 1 or 2 people doing 90% of the work, and when they lose interest (or find the next thing to carea about) they die.
- dragonwriter 11y agoWith an open source project, a sufficiently interested third-party has at least the legal right to pick up development of the code base that their work depends on (or to pay the developer of their choice to do so.) With a closed source project, that's not the case.
- wedowhatwedo 11y agoFucked? You would keep using ST as it is until it would no longer run on the current version of the OS. The product wouldn't stop working the day the author quit working on it.