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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by af3 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @08:46AM (#6520888)
"Goodbye the cloud – Reinventing coding with the Old Editor" -- Sublime Text 3 coming Oct 9th to all theaters in your area!
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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by davexunit on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @08:52AM (#6520920)
Please use a free editor instead. I recommend Emacs. Vim is fine, too.
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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by shawabawa3 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:22AM (#6521047)
> Please use a free editor instead. I recommend Emacs. Vim is fine, too.

Why? I have tried a huge number of editors including vim and emacs. Sublime is by far my favourite, but I shouldn't use it because it isn't FOSS?

Fuck that

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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by davexunit on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:34AM (#6521104)
>but I shouldn't use it because it isn't FOSS?

Yes.

>Fuck that

Have fun when it's no longer supported in a year or two.

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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by shawabawa3 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @10:22AM (#6521370)
> Have fun when it's no longer supported in a year or two.

..or 10, or 20. Or until it's open sourced

The developer has said multiple times that if it ever comes to a point where he no longer wants to develop it he'll open source it.

Either way, it's the best editor right now for me. If it stopped being supported today, it would still be the best editor for me. I will continue to use it until it isn't.

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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by davexunit on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @11:11AM (#6521707)
The main problem is that the developers do not respect your freedom. When there are plentiful free replacements, I see no reason to use proprietary software.
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Re:Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud by shawabawa3 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @11:26AM (#6521800)
> The main problem is that the developers do not respect your freedom.

Now I just feel like I'm getting trolled.

Doesn't he have the freedom to market his software however he wants? It's not like I'm being forced to use his software, I'm not even forced to pay to use his software (the trial is so unobtrusive that I used it for a year before paying).

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