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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 5 months ago

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 5 months 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 5 months ago

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[-] con_fig@programming.dev 52 points 5 months ago

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 5 months 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 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

Ah, makes sense , thanks!

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca -5 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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.