That is disappointing I understand that work deserves money but I wanted a viable competitor to the big 2. Emacs has gotten better because of XEmacs, vim may g

That is disappointing I understand that work deserves money but I wanted a viable competitor to the big 2. Emacs has gotten better because of XEmacs, vim may get better because of newvim, but that won't be possible here unless you want to contribute your time for a closed source project and hope that whoever sees your pull request chooses to merge it. Here's hoping they change their mind and perhaps develop a few useful paid extensions or something like that instead.