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by jasim 3564 days ago
The fact that it is a pseudo-free piece of software is one of the biggest reasons for its success (apart from its blazing speed and the rugged, minimalist engineering aesthetic). People just get used to the occasional nag screen as a sort of background noise.

I'm hopelessly tied to IntelliJ's amazing IDEs for any sort of programming, but Sublime is my EDIT.COM for all other writing, especially note-keeping. I used it in that capacity for around a year, guiltily enduring the nag-screen, before I got around to buying it. This free-but-nag approach (not Nagware - too negative) was unusual for the times, but it reminded me of the Shareware days when successful software like PKZip spread virally, but extracted commercial value only when the users felt like it.
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microtonal 3564 days ago
The fact that it is a pseudo-free piece of software is one of the biggest reasons for its success

I think the demise (in terms of active development) of TextMate should not be understated as a factor in ST's success. At the time Sublime Text 2 came out, a lot of TextMate users were frustrated with the lack of progress on TextMate and hopped on the ST bandwagon.

Ironically, ST had the same fate for a while. But it's good to see that there is some movement again.

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