[TxMt] Re: Texmate 2

Nick ParadoxQuine at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 05:09:23 UTC 2009


I too want some way to donate, or a choose your own price for TextMate
2 upgrade. TextMate is the OS X of editors.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mikael Hultgren<blomma at gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel very much the same way, textmate was the very first software i
> bought when i first got my mac and it and this brilliant community has
> allowed me to keep my sanity while working on numerous projects. To be
> honest i cant really imagine a workflow today without textmate. So
> with that said, i personally have every intention of buying a new
> licences when textmate 2 comes, regardless of it being a free or paid
> upgrade. Lets call it evening the score for every game/app i pirated
> in my youth ,)
>
>
> On 14 jun 2009, at 23.53, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> This hit the front page of reddit today, thought it would be good to
>> let the list know about it.  I found it to be a well written piece and
>> keeps me happy moving forward.
>>
>> http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/
>>
>> There are a good deal of comments on the blog as well as reddit about
>> the no pay for version 2 issue.  I am more or less in the camp of
>> "charge for version 2", especially if the lack of a charge is in any
>> way adding to a lack of motivation to get 2 out the door.
>>
>> That being said, I do not believe it would be wise to go against a
>> statement made in the past that version 2 would be a free upgrade.
>> Remember, there is nothing stopping any of us from just buying version
>> 2 outright when it comes out if that is the direction you want to go
>> in.
>>
>> This may skew stats a little on new users, versus upgrade users which
>> could be undesirable.  My suggestion, when this day comes, simply make
>> version two require a checkout process, to get a new serial, and
>> charge $0.00 to whatever you feel it is worth.
>>
>> Personally, if version 2 solves a good deal of my needs that are
>> lacking in version 1, I will be donating one way or another, $100.00
>> for my copy.  I pay my mortgage, dinners, clothes, and the rest of my
>> life as a result of TextMate, $100.00 is a small price to pay for
>> making it easier for me to make a living.
>>
>> Thank you for coming forward with a new plan to keep users updated on
>> the progress.  It has been long overdue, though users are generally
>> forgiving.  I also feel, the most vocal, that make a lot of noise, are
>> probably a very small percentage of the true count of the user base.
>>
>> Yay for 2.0 news!  Very nice to know at least one person is using 2.0
>> on a daily basis as well.
>> Have a nice end of the weekend to you all.
>> --
>> Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
>>
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