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You've misunderstood me. I'm saying that Sublime Text should be compared to an editor like Vim, not Brackets. I'm also saying that the folks at GitHub said it was more flexible than Vim.

"Historically, it appears that closed source front end editors like Textmate, Sublime Text and others find more success and usage in the market than open-source front end editors"

I wouldn't classify Sublime Text as a front-end editor. When I think of front-end editors, I think of Coda, Espresso, and Brackets. Sublime Text is better compared to Notepad++, Notepad 2, Gedit, SciTE, Emacs, and Vim, which are all open source software and extremely popular.

If you're going to market your text editor as hackable and as flexible as Vim and Emacs [1], it's not a stretch for the developers interested in your product to assume it's going to be or should be open source software.

[1] http://blog.atom.io/2014/02/26/introducing-atom.html