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Most developers don't care they just want to get to job done. Many of them use IntelliJ, etc. which is not free software either. Those who care about using fee
by dmortin 6y ago
Most developers don't care they just want to get to job done. Many of them use IntelliJ, etc. which is not free software either.
Those who care about using fee software already know about these things, because they check before starting to use a new software.
- johannes1234321 6y agoThere is a difference: intellij/Jetbrains don't claim to do OpenSource. Microsoft markets them as OpenSource player and Viscose as OpenSource IDE and if you don't look at the license terms you miss the part.
- johannes1234321 6y agoSeems I can't edit the comment anymore. "Viscose" was supposed to be "Viscose". Thanks autocorrect :)
- yencabulator 6y ago> "Viscose" was supposed to be "Viscose". Uhhh...
- johannes1234321 6y agoI give up. The phone rules over me.
- electronstudio 6y agoThey don’t brag about it as much as Microsoft do but IntelliJ Community Edition is free software. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/...
- TAForObvReasons 6y ago... and open source (Apache 2.0 License)
- electronstudio 6y agoAll free software is open source, by definition.
- mqus 6y agoWhile IntelliJ is not completely open source, the community edition definitely is(not free in the gpl sense but OSS). But they are careful in marketing it that way. https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/idea/ https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/idea/