[TxMt] Re: TextMate 2

[Allan Odgaard]

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 ;) ).