I love Sublime Text. It is actually Microsoft who should've paid for it, because they adopted what was done in Atom and Atom is direct attempt at opensource rewrite of Sublime Text. Sublime showed what a fast editor could look like, and it basically brought to the GUI world the long-overdue search-in-all-menus functionality which is really everywhere these days. Yeah, sure vim does it for ages with commands, no disrespect, but only 1% of baby devs would land vim in their first years.<p>Even though I appreciate opensource for many of its benefits (not quality, but mostly the community), there are dark sides to opensource that few mention. And one of it is the absolutely insanely negative view of anything that is closed-source software and needs to be paid for. Totally disregarding the qualities of product. This is so wrong on so many levels.<p>Whats more - a company which builds its services on opensource very seldom open sources its own code. What a hypocrisy! I'm not even going to go into this discussion of Amazon vs Elastic. It is shameful that users of opensource so much under-appreciate the authors' work while doing thousands, if not millions, on top of it. But then it is even more shameful to deny the right of authors of great software such as Sublime Text to proudly collect money for their work. After all - these service companies which are 99% opensource based, do whatever they do, for a profit, right?<p>And if we put this in perspective - whats the combined that you pay for Apple Music, Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Google Drive... whatever? Why not pay for the editor you are using on a daily basis, when its created by a hard-working professional. I'm not saying you have to pay for VSCode - its a marketing thing, very different. But people actually pay for Visual Studio, right?<p>So nothing shameless in buying Sublime Text, in fact - it is commendable.