[coldtea]

Who said most people still use the unpaid version?

Tons of people (from forums etc) use v3, which means they paid for v2 (or pirated it). I have paid for v2 and use v3 myself.

He also hired an extra guy during v2 development, which means he made enough money to have that. And in general, it's a hugely succesful project with Windows and OS X users.

If John saw that the unpaid version was an issue, he'd just cancel it.

[0942v8653]

It seems that you no longer need to have paid anything to use v3. http://www.sublimetext.com/3

I never downloaded or paid anything for v2, but I did download v3 (the official build, from the official site) to give it a try. I didn't end up sticking to it, but I was definitely able to run it without buying a license, albeit with occasional popups.

[coldtea]

If so, it wasn't the case a year or so ago with v3.

If he was hurt financially with people using the free+popups version, does it make sense that he would open it this way?