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As a software developer you should be more empathetic towards the author. Doesn't he, like you, deserve a paycheck every month?

• alexgaribay 8y ago
  Absolutely. But with every business, customers are going to churn whenever there's a change in billing model. For me, the yearly subscription price is not worth it.
• Someone1234 8y ago
  Of course. But the reality is this: The cost has increased; and some customers are saying the new higher cost is pricing them out of the product. The loss of those customers for higher profits on the remainder may make financial sense. But that is only known to the developer/author after a full assessment of the impact. Many other companies use price discrimination to combat this (e.g. Personal licenses are cheaper than business licenses, perpetual usage w/o updates, free OSS/student licenses, etc). Jetbrains utilizes almost all those techniques.