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42 Onivim Sucks 42 Onivim Sucks
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45 <p><a href="https://v2.onivim.io">Onivim</a> is a ‘modern modal editor’, combining fancy interface and language features with vim-style modal editing. What’s wrong you ask?</p> 45 <p><a href="https://v2.onivim.io">Onivim</a> is a ‘modern modal editor’,
46<p>Apart from <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/550">buggy syntax highlighting</a>, <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/519">broken scrolling</a> and <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22daily+editor+blocker%22+is%3Aopen">others</a>, Onivim is <strong>proprietary</strong> software. It is licensed under a commercial <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni1/blob/master/Outrun-Labs-EULA-v1.1.md">end user agreement license</a>, which prohibits redistribution in both object code and source code formats.</p> 46combining fancy interface and language features with vim-style modal
47<p>Onivim’s core editor logic (bits that belong to vim), have been separated from the interface, into <a href="https://github.com/onivim/libvim">libvim</a>. libvim is licensed under MIT, which means, this ‘extension’ of vim is perfectly in adherence to <a href="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license">vim’s license text</a>! Outrun Labs are exploiting this loophole (distributing vim as a library) to commercialize Onivim.</p> 47editing. What’s wrong you ask?</p>
48<p>Onivim’s source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2">GitHub</a>. They do mention that the source code trickles down to the <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2-mit">oni2-mit</a> repository, which (not yet) contains MIT-licensed code, <strong>18 months</strong> after each commit to the original repository.</p> 48<p>Apart from <a href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/550">buggy
49<p>Want to contribute to Onivim? Don’t. They make a profit out of your contributions. Currently, Onivim is priced at $19.99, ‘pre-alpha’ pricing which is 80% off the final price! If you are on the lookout for an editor, I would suggest using <a href="https://vim.org">Vim</a>, charity ware that actually works, and costs $100 lesser.</p> 49syntax highlighting</a>, <a
50href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/519">broken scrolling</a>
51and <a
52href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22daily+editor+blocker%22+is%3Aopen">others</a>,
53Onivim is <strong>proprietary</strong> software. It is licensed under a
54commercial <a
55href="https://github.com/onivim/oni1/blob/master/Outrun-Labs-EULA-v1.1.md">end
56user agreement license</a>, which prohibits redistribution in both
57object code and source code formats.</p>
58<p>Onivim’s core editor logic (bits that belong to vim), have been
59separated from the interface, into <a
60href="https://github.com/onivim/libvim">libvim</a>. libvim is licensed
61under MIT, which means, this ‘extension’ of vim is perfectly in
62adherence to <a
63href="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license">vim’s
64license text</a>! Outrun Labs are exploiting this loophole (distributing
65vim as a library) to commercialize Onivim.</p>
66<p>Onivim’s source code is available on <a
67href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2">GitHub</a>. They do mention that
68the source code trickles down to the <a
69href="https://github.com/onivim/oni2-mit">oni2-mit</a> repository, which
70(not yet) contains MIT-licensed code, <strong>18 months</strong> after
71each commit to the original repository.</p>
72<p>Want to contribute to Onivim? Don’t. They make a profit out of your
73contributions. Currently, Onivim is priced at $19.99, ‘pre-alpha’
74pricing which is 80% off the final price! If you are on the lookout for
75an editor, I would suggest using <a href="https://vim.org">Vim</a>,
76charity ware that actually works, and costs $100 lesser.</p>
50 77
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