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Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.
It's absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
The basic software like the Intellij Community Edition is also fully open source. (And it's not actually basic at all. It's a great full featured IDE)
Basically you're only paying for their support/updates and for specific language and toolkit support, which makes sense to me. They need to pay their staff somehow.
It's not comparable to Adobe or other crappy manufacturers where you own nothing.
What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?
If you stop the subscription, you don't get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it's not locked out by a license check.
That’s good, I think that’s a much better and fairer model than being locked out completely of a thing that you did pay for.
Basically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.
If I subscribe for 10 years then can't afford it any more I'm rewarded with a 10 year old version of the software? It should be the version that was current when you finished your subscription.
So at most your software will be 1 year old.
That's not so bad. Thank you for the clarification.
Ah, makes sense , thanks!