Allen,
Amen :) Regardless, I love TextMate and the Job you've done, and I'd gladly pay for it again.
Eric Coleman
On May 26, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 26/5/2006, at 22:46, Timothy Reaves wrote:
[...] So when someone asks about performance and whatnot, you can't simply say 'you get what you pay for'
While I personally would not use such phrase, I don’t see why you can’t say such thing about TextMate.
You pay an indie software developer €39 for a shareware application. Did you not get a shareware application worth €39? Let me remind you that hiring a software developer to do custom development for you will likely cost €100 or more per hour (and I doubt you can find anyone who can write something like TextMate in less than a year), and it’s not uncommon to pay for support and/or upgrades. I currently provide that as a free bonus, and even do semi-custom development for you guys.
I do this of own choosing, so it is not because I expect any special gratitude for this gesture, but frankly your statement does seem pretty out of place!
[...] compared to other similarly complex software, it costs a lot.
No it does not. Commercial/shareware software of the same complexity costs the same or more, sometimes much more. F/OSS is hard to compare, but if you think of the high-profile projects like Eclipse or Firefox, those projects are backed by companies who invest millions of dollars in them (lookup the price for being a Mozilla Foundation), even governments have put money into the Mozilla project -- and those money do come from somewhere.
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