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Re:"Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source... by catinsocks on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:07PM (#7310094)
That is disappointing I understand that work deserves money but I wanted a viable competitor to the big 2.

Emacs has gotten better because of XEmacs, vim may get better because of newvim, but that won't be possible here unless you want to contribute your time for a closed source project and hope that whoever sees your pull request chooses to merge it.

Here's hoping they change their mind and perhaps develop a few useful paid extensions or something like that instead.

Re:"Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source... by 0X1A on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:17PM (#7310134)
Considering GitHub is essentially entirely closed source, I doubt there will be a change of heart.