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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] morhp@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, makes sense , thanks!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as soon as you pay for 12 consecutive months, you will receive this perpetual fallback license providing you with access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started.

So at most your software will be 1 year old.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That's not so bad. Thank you for the clarification.