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Agreed, Jetbrains is moving to this model and it is disgusting.

• mgkimsal 11y ago
  They backpedaled mostly and offer perpetual licenses. I just wish they'd simply added subscription options in the first place vs going through all the hullabaloo. Perhaps it was a smokescreen, but that just feels very conspiratorial.
  • HerpDerpLerp 11y ago
    mostly but not completely. After your year you have to downgrade to the version as it was when you originally bought. Removing bug fixes and new features you have got used to over your year of use. Mental.
    • mgkimsal 11y ago
      That's what my 'mostly' meant. You can simply pay a 12 month fee and buy it 'in advance' and just use what you get, vs thinking about it as "I'm losing bug fixes". I'm still using PHPStorm 7.1 from a couple years ago, and it still works. Same concept would apply going forward, but... I still think they handled this wrong.