On 24 Jun 2009, at 12:00, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 17 Jun 2009, at 20:15, enas wrote:
[...] I guess the "natural" solution would be that TextMate gets eventually open-sourced (with the possibility to make donations to the bundle developers as well as to the core project's developers). I understood that Allan has a very precise vision of where he wants to get to, so it wouldn't seem strange that once this state is achieved (or if Allan gives up on reaching that state, whichever comes first :), he decides to open-source it. Is there any consideration on that matter?
Yeah, F/OSS has long been on my taunt
Ups… hit Send _far_ too early…
Yes, F/OSS has long been on my mind as a potential way out of this, though I have since hired one full time developer and two others part time (support/bundles and technical writer), so in addition to my own living expenses, I have to consider them as well.
But I am sort of optimistic about finding a way this can work, but first I need to finish 2.0 before any of this is relevant.
As for pay/free upgrade; for now I am doing ok financially — though I need no convincing that the “free upgrade” statement was stupid as I should also consider the future, but I think there are options like doing a much less ambitious 3.0 which is then for pay, or doing a paid 2.0 beta program, etc. and as long as I don’t end on the street, I am happy :) And while I disagree that the free upgrade has ever been even remotely close to the selling point of 1.x (go read our license policy, we are extremely pessimistic about even releasing a 2.0), I would not go back on what is effectively a promise which involve money (the promises that involve features, I am less hesitatnt about breaking ;) ).