Supporting and updating Markdown Monster has become much more than just a small side project that I can work on for a few hours a week between adding new features, fixing bugs and fielding support for issues, feature requests and other minutiae.įrom the very beginning I was pretty clear in my vision to not make this a free product. When I started with Markdown Monster it was a very small project and licensing was mostly an afterthought, but as time went on the product grew in sophistication, and today it is used by more than a thousand people every day on average.
Discounted licenses are available depending on international locations. Free licenses are offered to contributors (both code as well as feedback, help with tracking down bugs, or any other valuable support of Markdown Monster up to our discretion) as well to various developer programs and organizations.
But it did have source code on GitHub out in the open, and uses a commercial license that requires a license purchase or use one of several avenues related to supporting the project to get a free license. The project is not and never was a FOSS (Free Open Source) project. Markdown Monster started very modestly but has grown both in feature scope as well as popularity. You can check out the features either on the Markdown Monster site or on the GitHub repository. What started as a fairly minimal editor has transformed in a multi-functional application, that still provides a simple user experience while providing many sophisticated addon features. It sounds simple enough, but to do Markdown right and provide a productive workflow for writing, there are a lot of things that you can do to make the process easier and Markdown Monster is my take on doing that. Markdown Monster is a Windows based Markdown Editor and Weblog Publisher that provides a ton of functionality around the basic process of Markdown editing. A History of Markdown Monster as a Product You can take the latter with a grain of salt, but the discussion of the hows and whys of having source code in the open and how it didn't work out for me might be useful to others who are thinking about doing something similar. In this post I'll talk about the reasons for this action as well as offer some of my thoughts on the state of software today. Markdown Monster is not dead!īut the source code out in the open is now a thing of the past and only available by explicit request in a private repository. Issues will continue to be processed and fixed and new versions will be forthcoming. You can still download Markdown Monster installers and access the Chocolatey, Snap and WinGet packages. The GitHub repository is still there and will continue to be there. With a heavy heart and a lot of hand wringing, I decided last week to take down the Markdown Monster source code from the public GitHub repository due to rampant license abuses.
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