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Re:Sublime Text 3.0 by ksec on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:27AM (#15239157)
Sometimes I wonder why there isn't a model, where its Author put up after Number of Copies sold, it will be open sourced.

Of Coz it wont be a small amount. It could be 25,000 copies. But then lot of companies, whom may like Sublime, could spend and join the race.

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Re:Sublime Text 3.0 by stanmancan on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:32PM (#15239902)
If you spend years taking the risk and building a piece of software; why give it away once it's successful?
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Re:Sublime Text 3.0 by nirvdrum on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:37AM (#15245240)
Blender sorta did that. It was a closed source project that the authors said they would open source if the community raised €100,000. It succeeded and the software was subsequently made open source.
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