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Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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why are you surprised by this? we don't all have $70 lying around

$70 isn't a lot of money. Is it an hour of your time? Maybe two? If people don't want to pay that's fine, use one of the great open source editors. Saying you don't have the money doesn't make it ok to violate the license. rms works hard to give you emacs for free. The Sublime guys are trying to earn a living.

No, the fact that licensing ideas is a bullshit scam is why it's ok to violate the license.

IP is an abstraction. We don't all subscribe to it.

Please do not take away from this comment that I don't think devs should get paid.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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This is why I tried creating my own simple "text editor" within my experimenta live IDE, so that I would not be limited by anyone's API or closed source and could create something more unusual. Is it a better approach? It's really hard to say, and definitely not obvious. I had to re-create a lot of existing functionality just so that I could more easily modify it. And clearly I cannot compete with the advanced functi…

Have you thought of building on top of a library like CodeMirror (which Light Table is built on)?' edit: ST2 -> Light Table

No because I work with native platforms (OS X, Linux, Windows) using C++/Go instead of a browser/JS. At least for the time being.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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Have you thought of building on top of a library like CodeMirror (which Light Table is built on)?' edit: ST2 -> Light Table

Where on earth did you read that ST2 is build on CodeMirror?

My mistake, I meant Light Table.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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post #24

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why are you surprised by this? we don't all have $70 lying around

$70 isn't a lot of money. Is it an hour of your time? Maybe two? If people don't want to pay that's fine, use one of the great open source editors. Saying you don't have the money doesn't make it ok to violate the license. rms works hard to give you emacs for free. The Sublime guys are trying to earn a living.

70 US Dollar equals 643.45 South African Rand.

To put that in perspective: R650 is a basic grocery shop for my small family for a week.

I have a day job, a baby under a year old, another kid reaching teenagerdom and a bootstrapped startup. My wife works part time.

I wish more startups and even more mature companies would build in some sort of currency sensitive sliding scale for their pricing models. I know what a ball ache pricing is and how much time we tend to spend on it already but I'd love to be able to support and often times the reality is that I simply cannot afford to... Because of the exchange rate.

I take issue with your suggestion that people like myself piss off and use OSS though and I take issue with it for one simple reason: I personally use the 'nag screen version' of Sublime. I'm crazy about the product and when I have a row of developers working on a product that's paying the bills then rest assured - I'll be buying those licenses. In the mean time people see me using it, I evangelize the app fairly regularly, etc.

I know the Sublime guys are trying to earn a living, we all are, and I think that having more users of any kind will ultimately lead to more users of the paying kind.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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That looks very interesting, but typing several lines of text rather than speaking them is painful to sit through. I would suggest turning off the music next time and just tell people what it is and how it works.

I don't think english is his native language… At least there was a screencast showing off the features

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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None.

So, can we agree that it is unreasonable to assume that developing and open sourcing a Package Addon for a popular ShareWare tool should obligate an an author to purchase a license for the software his work is targeting ?

I think 8ig8 was the one saying that the licence does't really allow you to skip the $70. I think you have made the confusion between 8ig8 and whao.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector

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post #32
post #24

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$70 isn't a lot of money. Is it an hour of your time? Maybe two? If people don't want to pay that's fine, use one of the great open source editors. Saying you don't have the money doesn't make it ok to violate the license. rms works hard to give you emacs for free. The Sublime guys are trying to earn a living.

No, the fact that licensing ideas is a bullshit scam is why it's ok to violate the license. IP is an abstraction. We don't all subscribe to it. Please do not take away from this comment that I don't think devs should get paid.

How could one not?
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