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02/08 2019
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Onivim is a ‘modern modal editor’, combining fancy +interface and language features with vim-style modal editing. What’s wrong you +ask?

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Apart from buggy syntax highlighting, +broken scrolling and +others, +Onivim is proprietary software. It is licensed under a commercial +end user agreement license, +which prohibits redistribution in both object code and source code formats.

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Onivim’s core editor logic (bits that belong to vim), have been separated from +the interface, into libvim. libvim is +licensed under MIT, which means, this ‘extension’ of vim is perfectly in +adherence to vim’s license text! +Outrun Labs are exploiting this loophole (distributing vim as a library) to +commercialize Onivim.

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Onivim’s source code is available on GitHub. +They do mention that the source code trickles down to the +oni2-mit repository, which (not yet) contains +MIT-licensed code, 18 months after each commit to the original repository.

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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 +Vim, charity ware that actually works, and costs $100 lesser.

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