This is extremely exciting. GitHub has been pioneering the open source community—and by extension, the entire programming community—for a long time, and I completely and utterly trust them to make the right choices on their own; but even better than that, they’re open-sourcing the vast majority of Atom’s infrastructure.
The fact they’re going to charge for it is the icing on the cake. Open source should not mean free – far from it, in my opinion. Maintaining an open source project is no simple undertaking. It’s a full time profession, and often an expensive one. Whether they incorporate Atom’s pricing into GitHub’s own subscriptions, or allow standalone purchase, the project is well worth backing financially and otherwise.
This is extremely exciting. GitHub has been pioneering the open source community—and by extension, the entire programming community—for a long time, and I completely and utterly trust them to make the right choices on their own; but even better than that, they’re open-sourcing the vast majority of Atom’s infrastructure.
The fact they’re going to charge for it is the icing on the cake. Open source should not mean free – far from it, in my opinion. Maintaining an open source project is no simple undertaking. It’s a full time profession, and often an expensive one. Whether they incorporate Atom’s pricing into GitHub’s own subscriptions, or allow standalone purchase, the project is well worth backing financially and otherwise.