If you’ve already made a fair amount of income for the time you’ve already spent working on it, you don’t really have the moral right to keep it closed-source, and if you haven’t made a fair amount yet, you could always crowdsource an amount you think is fair in exchange for releasing the source.
To be honest, it seems quite selfish to hold something with so much public usefulness hostage. I really don’t think there’s that much economic reason to keep it open-source (it’s perfectly usable in trial mode anyway if people are looking to “pirate” a copy), and a no-resale license could protect Jon from bigger companies muscling him out with better/more support. It’s by far the fastest and cleanest GUI text editor, and it would suck for the source code to languish on someone’s hard drive.
If anything happens to Jon, or simply enough time passes and he loses interest, then everyone who has invested time into learning how to use Sublime efficiently will be left high and dry as soon as it becomes incompatible with OS changes. If you have any questions or suggestions, do let me know in the comment section below.I love Sublime and have bought v2 and v3 but I am very worried about the bus factor.
I hope this tutorial helped you to install Sublime Text 3 on Linux.
For those who have a license key for Sublime Text 1 or 2, they can purchase an upgrade.
Sublime Text 3.0 already accepts license key for those who purchased it in February 2013.
Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free for unlimited time, however, a license must be purchased for continued use. You can check out all the Sublime Text 2.0 to 3.0 changes here. Spell checking word selection behavior has improved.Autocomplete works as expected in macros.An “Open URL” will show when you right-click on a URL.Other fixes like the incorrect handling of double clicks in the Find panel and underscore display in some of the menus.Starting Sublime Text from the command line will daemonize the process by default.When pressing ctrl+w, a tweaked window closing behavior is seen.Panel Switcher has been added to the status bar.The status bar now displays encoding and line endings.A preview tab is created when previewing files from the sidebar.Image preview is added when opening images.The user and default settings stand side-by-side. Asking for license after last update (Sublime Text Build 4109) SunRed commented on 13:04 To cut down the amount of packages to be maintained and to decrease confusion, this package is now used for the dev branch of Sublime Text that is kept up to date with the most recent version. The most prominent change here is the settings which now opens in a new window.It now has a faster startup, scrolling is more efficient and files open faster. The release specifies that Sublime Text 3.0 has more performance when compared to Sublime Text 2 even though it is larger in size than 2. Spell-check and word wrapping work better now. The major changes to be seen in Sublime Text 3.0 are the Goto Definition, the new UI, syntax highlighting engine and an expanded API. According to the release statement, “virtually every aspect of the editor has been improved in some way, and even a list of the major changes would be too long.” The stable version of Sublime Text 3 sees major changes seen in almost every aspect of version 2.0. New Features in Sublime Text 3.0Īfter several years in beta, Sublime Text 3.0 was finally released last year. Here is how to easily install Microsoft Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10 and 14.04.