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Sublime license follows you around, so new employers don't need to purchase new ones.
Depends on the employer, my big co handles it opaquely so I'd have to get a new one at a new company.
really, is $70 for a productivity tool you use for most of the day, every day, "pretty steep"? many developers make that in a hour. i paid for it.
It's not steep in the value it provides, or the amount I've used it. But it's steep enough that it's more than I often pay for one thing. It's steep enough to make me come up with some excuse - "well, it's optional..." "I can't afford it this month, maybe later" "It's good, but it's not $70 better than other text editors" "I'm mostly using it for work, so I'm not going to pay for it out of my own pocket" (and the com…
so you definitely must pay for it
I've paid for Sublime Text 2, and I got pretty annoyed when v3 came out with only extremely minor or patch-level changes only a couple of months after I bought the previous version, and I was required to pay for the license again (I didn't and used it only for a short while after this happened). I've recently moved to Atom and enjoy it a lot. Yes, it's not as fast/light as Sublime, and it can't handle very big files,…
I'm guessing most of their money comes from businesses who purchase licenses for their developers. I've personally been responsible for four license purchases (my own + 3 companies bought a license for my work computer).
really, is $70 for a productivity tool you use for most of the day, every day, "pretty steep"? many developers make that in a hour. i paid for it.
It's not steep in the value it provides, or the amount I've used it. But it's steep enough that it's more than I often pay for one thing. It's steep enough to make me come up with some excuse - "well, it's optional..." "I can't afford it this month, maybe later" "It's good, but it's not $70 better than other text editors" "I'm mostly using it for work, so I'm not going to pay for it out of my own pocket" (and the com…
no, it is not. payment is not optional, you are abusing the developer's trust.
he is not apple, he is not google. he is a developer, like you and me, and he needs to make a living out of his work, too.
there is nothing wrong about paying for software.