I paid, since I use it professionally. Just like I would donate to useful open source software if they have an option for this. They do the same to my apps...
Why nobody pays for Sublime?
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Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#12Because apart from the popup you eventually unconsciously dismiss every x number of saves, there's no reason to pay up.
I've been using it for 4 years unpaid, sublime has helped me get my first home. If I was forced to tomorrow because I could no longer use it I'd pay for it immediately, but right now there's nothing pushing me to part with my cash.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#13Why use Sublime at all if you have vim and emacs?
Why use emacs or vim if you have ed?
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#14I paid for it because it's valuable and deserves payment. I get paid for doing work in which I use it. I want its maker to continue to thrive and sustain it (a wish, I admit, that has not panned out as expected; development on Sublime Text is incredibly slow). All ethical logic says I should pay and so I did.
What makes you think that "nobody" pays for Sublime? Perhaps you mean, "I'm using this essential tool without paying for and I'd like to believe that lots of other people are also cheating its maker and would they please give me some rationalizations I can use to make myself feel better?" What's the question exactly?
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#15I was always intending to pay for Sublime but I no longer use it, now using vim for all of my editing needs.
Opinions on nagware aside, Sublime is a good tool and I did feel bad about using it to make a living and not contributing.. but I was also afraid to get too attached to a closed source editor. I think maybe sublime is kind of in a deadzone of being a nagware text editor that is free to use, but not an IDE with a huge feature set for an ecosystem that requires it, or an IDE that accesses some kind of propeitary vender-locked tech stack. For everything that's good about it, ultimately it's just a text editor and there are a lot of text editors of similar power out there if you're not looking for a sexy GUI.
So, I have no idea.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#16When I started using Sublime it seemed that the new version was just around the corner, and I thought there would probably be some sort of release (or near release) discount just around the corner as well.
Then the project went silent, came back, but had this weird we're back but we are mostly telling it to paying customers, so it was a bit confusing what was going on. I'm kinda still waiting to see if I should switch editor or if the release of sublime3 will reawaken the plugin ecosystem.
tl;dr: bad excuses.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#17Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#18Why use Sublime at all if you have vim and emacs?
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#19I haven't paid for it yet, but have used for a couple of years. The reasoning was simply that v3 was about to drop, so I figured I'd wait for that before buying.
At this point though, I'm ready to move onto a more serious IDE.
Re: Why nobody pays for Sublime?
#20I have it but I don't use it much.. if at all.. I use Atom..
If the license was around half of what is it or if I can find an license on a discount I probably would and start using it regularly.
It is not part of my daily routine..
For example I have IntelliJ license because this is what I use