Is freemium the new EEE? How do you expect the man to make money?
What I'm saying is that if he opens at least some of Sublime it might help make it a better editor and advance faster with the help of a community. It certainly beats Sublime becoming irrelevant and dying eventually, which I really hope it won't. I'd really prefer using sublime, but I'm simply using the best tool (BTW Sublime is still a better editor, no plugins installed on either). Open source is a plus for me, not a must.
Does freemium really work at all for anyone? Gets you new users quickly but then 1 in 10,000 converts. This works for established companies as they can weather the freeloaders with piles of cash from other parts of the business. Or in the case of VC-backed companies, from the money fountain (better not ask Spotify about that though).
I just can't see how a small company depending on a single product would benefit from this model.
BTW Sublime are more or less Freemium right now, even worse - you don't HAVE to pay, you just get those annoying messages. It's practically a donation model right now.
I bet the Sublime spell-check plugin doesn't send your entire file to a third-party server over plain http.
this cfg entry:
// Enable usage data and errors to be sent to Microsoft.
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": true,
As long as telemetry is what's being collected, and I can disable it (and fork VScode if not), I'm good with it.
EDIT: Also, other editors phone home as well. IntelliJ certainly does, and I'm pretty sure Sublime as well.
and afaik it has been updated just last week with new features
I hope the Sublime author will release it as open source, at least in some IntelliJ style freemium model. That might give it back the boost it needs.