[TxMt] Is this for real?

[Ben Bleything]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006, Eric Knapp wrote:
> There is a good discussion on the post I linked to about this. Lots of
> people are saying that this is a really good thing for the TextMate
> community. However, I'm not so sure. I realize that there is nothing anyone
> can do about it but if this editor take off on Win and Linux there is really
> nothing to stop him from porting to OS X too. I guess I've seen good
> intentions blow up in faces too many times to be excited about this. I can
> only hope that everything works out well for everyone, but I'm skeptical.

So what if he does, though?  There would need to be a compelling reason
for most people to move from TM to the new thing, and if there's a
compelling reason, then he's doing something right and maybe it makes
sense to move.

Competition is not a bad thing.

Ben