Why would any programmer ever risk learning a proprietary/closed source text editor? You're putting your most important tool at the mercy of some corporation or individual.
'Interestingly, one word I didn’t see mentioned at all throughout the survey was “freedom.” To me, this is what the American Dream is all about, and is in large part what the country’s first immigrants found so appealing'
Yes, I'm sure that's what african immigrants were thinking when they stepped off their boats.