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Not a big fan of proprietary software especially software development tools .Imagine if Apache was proprietary, the internet wouldn't be the same.


Apache (a server, huge lock in) and a text editor (no lock in) are not comparable.

Open Source is driven by paid competition, and vice versa. Linux wouldn't exist without Windows, and Firefox wouldn't exist without Internet Explorer. And Linux and Firefox both in turn pushed their close-source competitors forward, too.

I love open source (I used to work at Mozilla), but some of my favorite tools only exist because someone is getting paid to work on them full time.


There are people who are paid to work on open source full time or part time.

I don't see how server software has inherently more vendor-lock-in than a text editor.


Switching costs is a lot lower for a text editor.


I switched from lighttpd to nginx without any problems but going from textmate to vim took a while :)




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