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> It's a scam. This is typical education & OSS licensing. You can find the same verbiage in basically every discounted system. JetBrains products start with "f
by Shank 8y ago
> It's a scam.
This is typical education & OSS licensing. You can find the same verbiage in basically every discounted system. JetBrains products start with "for educational use only" when using academic discounts. When using Autodesk software for free, you get the same stuff.
Gitlab is trying really hard to be a great offering -- it's highly improbable they're going to resort to extortion on their newly opened discount programs.
- irrational 8y agoHow is it a scam? When I was a college student I would have loved free use of the JetBrains IDEs. When I graduated and got a job I may have needed to use a different IDE (and JetBrains would obviously like me to encourage my new company to switch to JetBrains), but I don't think that is a scam.
- Dayshine 8y ago>You can find the same verbiage in basically every discounted system Which is a shame, because it excludes non-commercial research. I work on an academic public health research programme and I'm pretty sure we're not eligible for this wording. We don't teach, we research, we're academics not lecturers...
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoYou could always try e-mailing them. It might just be a use case they haven't thought about.