![]() 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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