Why nobody pays for Sublime?

Because it's free and not that different? To clarify, I use and I don't pay; but am seriously considering; probably will pay once beta's over (I'm using the beta for version 3); definitely appreciate the tool; I really enjoying using Sublime tool.

Great product I use everyday. If you like and use a tool support it. I paid.

I paid; while I'm not a power user, and it's a bit finicky to code for, I don't see why I shouldn't pay.

If I released a "pay if you want" product I'd want people to feel like it's worth it and give me money. It'd be hypocritical for me not to pay.

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.

I paid since it's a tool I'm using on more or less on a daily basis.