On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
Hey Shawn. We all heard your requests. There is no need to repeat them. Furthermore, it is just rude to publically suggest to Allan better ways to develop his product. If you haven't noticed, he does it for fun, and he does it in his own way. If you don't like it, you can always grab that refund.
Although I agree with you for the most part, the fact that we have paid a fair amount for this product does mean that we can publicly make suggestions. In fact, that's one of the reasons I actually paid for TextMate. I knew that although Allan didn't make the source available, he made himself available and actively participated in the mailing lists, and thus I could complain if something was broken. I thought of the license not as a license to use the software, since I could probably find a way to use it unlicensed, but as a license to complain about it. 3 If this were free software, then yes, complaining would be out of place. But it's not, and although Shawn's tone does come across as pretty abrasive, he still has every right to complain. Assuming, of course, that he's paid his complaint tax.
That being said, I haven't felt the need to complain about anything.
-dudley