Sublime is an awesome piece of software written with so much effort put into performance. I don't see why the author should open source it. People who like open source editors only have many options. Open sourcing Sublime text would just mean the amount of paying users would drop to a much lower number, and the authors would be forced to write CRUD apps in some company. Once it goes open source there would be a new free open source distribution and all corporate money would drop I think.
On HN the sentiment for many things that everyone else can make enough money via donations/patreon and do some consulting or merchandising. However, very few HN developers would choose that over their well paying jobs writing closed source software.
On HN the sentiment for many things that everyone else can make enough money via donations/patreon and do some consulting or merchandising. However, very few HN developers would choose that over their well paying jobs writing closed source software.