"
I know several big companies that use Vim internally. Maybe Bram could
continue to work on a free Vim, but charge for support.
"
I don't think you can make a living from supporting Vim, because Vim,
while seems complicated to the average user, is quite self-explanatory
to all-time users who are familiar with it's concepts. You cannot really
be a 'time to time' Vim user, and if you use it constantly, chances are
that you are doing well.
Also, even if Bram can get paid to support Vim, it certainly cannot
compete with a job offer from Google.
But if we want to be optimistic, we can look at this this way:
Maybe, because of working with smart people at Google, he will be able
to get more ideas for developing and fixing Vim, and this will increase
the development rate. After all, if you are a smart person, nothing
helps you more than being with other smart people and working on
interesting projects. In this respect, there is no substitute for real
human interaction.
Regards,
Jonathan Orlev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Working for Google is indeed a great honor, and they probably gave you
an 'offer you cannot refuse'. I hope you can spend some of the time you
work at Google to develop Vim, I know they let their workers do so (this
is something you know better than I am).
Any way, if you do want to continue developing Vim as a full time job I
hope you will be able to do so. It is indeed an amazing program, by now,
it is the only text editor I can use.
I know several big companies that use Vim internally. Maybe Bram could
continue to work on a free Vim, but charge for support.
--Matt
