TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions

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13 points·stefanve··12 comments

https://github.com/textmate/textmate

This is an old article, and it's rubbish anyway. The sandboxing restrictions on App Store downloads are obviously not about "restriction of freedoms" so much as security.

Yeah I just noticed that, sorry, also I thought that it being open sourced was more interesting than the reason why.

https://github.com/textmate/textmate

It's is an older post, but new for me and new for the HN system :)

The article is over a year old.

OS X sandboxing has exactly nothing to with the open vs. closed debate. Sounded more like an attempt to shift attention away from the fact that TextMate 2.0 was at least 3+ years late at the time it was abando..i mean open sourced.

It is not abandoned. Just look at the github repo. I get updates for my TextMate 2.0 at least weekly.

Please add (2012) to the link.

I'm sorry didn't noticed it is over a year old I thought a couple of months. I'm unable to change the title as I'm not aloud to do that anymore. I was triggered by the lime editor post to see how the 2.0 version was coming along so I searched and stumbled upon this.

The battle of the editors! Which one should I choose now that Lime ( https://github.com/quarnster/lime ) is out there too? :).

This is a strange article; it's not like any version of TextMate was ever distributed through the app store, so I'm not sure the relevance of app store restrictions.

This is very old news, and I don't see which OSX restrictions in particular are involved.

Wasn't it already open source?

Iit is. The article is from Aug 2012

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