![]() ![]() It’s near flawless recall for conversations I understand and crystal clear memories to the time I was a baby ( very few of those memories exist, or are accessible though ) with an amazing ability for code visualization and processing in my mind… I have a broken neck, back and severe nerve damage with no income at the moment because I’m, after almost 7 years of hell / pain / humiliation / etc…, still seeing a doctor about trying to find a permanent solution - Salary for the position I’d occupy would start around $89,000 to $250,000 depending where I go and how much of my skillset they’d want to use - this is based on actual market studies for Computer Science / IT / Database Designers, etc… I know several dozen languages and I pick up new languages incredibly quickly due to how my memory operates. The popup isn’t a bother because it can be coded away - the new version notification is useful. The lack of advanced panels is a huge drawback. I would buy Sublime Text - but for close to the same amount I can buy a full translation suite. So I think if you cannot contribute to the community by ways of softwares/api’s, purchasing things from others for a fair price is kinda a way to make your contribution to the software society (in a crude form nevertheless). Lastly, as a developer I’ve generally “ taken” things from the software society and not really “ given” anything back. At least the creators of sublime are kind enough to let you try their product indefinitely till you’re really really convinced that you need that tool everyday and make a living out of it. Now, why wouldn’t they make it free is something that I can’t speak about… but in the normal world transactions, one’s got pay for the stuff he/she buys so NOT making it free shouldn’t be such a turn off. Shelling out 80$ for me wasn’t easy too… when I was hesitating to pay webstorm’s annual license around 60$ (with a fallback license) and given the fact the Sublime is not even an IDE! So while I would love sublime to be free like notepad++, I think its fair they be paid for the efforts they took. Afterwards, I started feeling a bit guilty that the developers worked on it painstakingly and I wasn’t honoring their work. I had used sublime in an unregistered version mode for quite some time. My decision to buy sublime was an emotional one. I guess if you don’t mind the nag, and don’t want access to new features, and your conscience doesn’t compel you to buy a license ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.īut in short if you like the product and want to continue seeing it developed (because if people stop buying licenses, the product dies), then support it, but no one is making you. ![]() Nothing currently is forcing you to buy a license. So in short, Sublime relies on your conscience I guess. So I wanted to support the project and buy license. I guess as someone who develops code, I understand the work put into it, and I understand how much more enjoyable coding is now with Sublime. When I was satisfied with the product I eventually bought a license. I wanted some time to learn how the plugin system worked etc. I wanted to see how my workflow adapted to it. I know I used it as a trial for a good while before committing to a license. ![]() I think it is cool that Sublime allows a full feature experience when giving it a trial run and that they don’t limit it. Now that may not be enough to motivate some to pay up, but that is something that is offered to license holders. They also give you access to development builds to get earlier access to new features. So, the devs are “nagging” me to buy their product, instead of offering any additional functions? Even otherwise, if you use continue to use Sublime, you should pay for a license (as stated on the download page). That said, if you’re making a living programming you should definitely pay for a license. Although the lack of a time bomb was in from the start, when there might not have been any expectation of how popular Sublime would be. That might be why JPS doesn’t seem concerned with putting a time bomb in the trial. If that number applies generally, even across non-Stackoverflow readers, and even if only a fraction of the users pay for it, it seems like it would generate a fair amount of revenue. Sublime Text looks to be used by around 25% of developers. Most Popular Developer Environments by Occupation An interesting (to me anyway) item from the 2017 Stackoverflow Developer Survey results. ![]()
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