[themartorana]

What makes a winner? Everyone I know has purchased Sublime and will likely purchase 3 when its out of beta. It must generate millions of dollars in revenue, and has an incredibly active community, just judging from the package control website.

Open source doesn't magically "win" over closed/commercial just by the nature of being open source.

[kp25]

I didn't mean that way, open source wins over closed source every time; Atleast Atom has lot of contributors and being pushed very quickly, which has something of around 155 releases in a year (from public beta to stable 1.0). That's really a good sign, not sure if it continues; if it does, it's going to be really good editor in the long run.