TextMate 2 open sourced!

[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>wrote:

> Kellerman Rivero Suarez wrote:
> > You Right, but in OSS exists multiple browsers, multiple desktop
> > managers, multiple media players, and stop count! In this case, I love
> > gedit, but is more matter of taste. I think so.
> >
>
> Yes, it's great that Linux allows people to create multiple ways of
> painting a shed, but that doesn't mean it is always a good thing.
>
> OSS is not unique in providing multiple of a XYZ app. Commercial
> software has always provided multiple of XYZ apps and has that been a
> good thing? For instance: I'm sure you can find multiple music players
> for Android phones in the Google store, but does that mean it is a good
> thing? There comes a time when a software developer needs to swallow
> their pride and work together with another human being to create a
> better software instead of forking. It is rare for a fork to succeed and
> usually, only succeeds if upstream dies/is dying so in other words the
> fork becomes the new upstream and you don't really see it as a fork any
> more.
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While gedit is nice, it is a GTK+ app. Do we actually have a decent
selection of open source text editors for the GNUStep environment? As far
as I know, we don't. TextMate would target a different group of people,
those who use the NeXTSTEP/GNUStep environment.
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