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I like what Jetbrain does for PyCharm: - Great free-for-ever version that only misses advanced features to get you hooked (as no one would pay for an IDE befor
by nicolaslem 6y ago
I like what Jetbrain does for PyCharm:
- Great free-for-ever version that only misses advanced features to get you hooked (as no one would pay for an IDE before being able to get a good feel for it).
- Yearly subscription to the pro version with a heavy discount for people keeping the subscription multiple years.
- Canceling the subscription grants you a perpetual license to the current version.
Contrast that with what Adobe does for Lightroom:
- No free version, they know they're the industry leader.
- Subscription with no discount for loyal users.
- Canceling the subscription renders your data useless.
- acemarke 6y agoThe phrasing for Jetbrains cancellation sounds a bit off. As far as I understand it, cancelling leaves you with a perpetual license for the last release where you had already paid a year's worth of subscription: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-a-perpetual-fallback-license- https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What... That means that it's likely that you would no longer own, say, version WebStorm 2020.01, but have to fall back to 2019.02 or something. That said, yeah, the mixture of OSS-licensed / trial / commercial versions does work pretty well for Jetbrains.