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Microsoft definitely had this strategy with early versions of Windows and quite a lot of specialist tools that cost thousands of dollars per license seem to hav
by alasdair_ 6y ago
Microsoft definitely had this strategy with early versions of Windows and quite a lot of specialist tools that cost thousands of dollars per license seem to have something similar going.
I can attest that when I was living on a few hundred dollars a month as a CS student, I pirated a very early version of the IntelliJ IDE. I don't feel bad about this, especially as I've been responsible for tens of thousands dollars worth of license sales for the same product over the years - if only a full-price version of IntelliJ was available, I'd have stuck with Netbeans/ Eclipse instead.
- XorNot 6y agoI mean Jetbrains free offerings are substantial anyway and I think just as effective these days. As soon as I found I needed remote debugging to just work, the money for an Ultimate license for myself was just sensible - I wanted to make sure I had the exact tools I needed at work everytime.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>Microsoft definitely had this strategy with early versions of Windows I question this, purely because the "Open Letter to Hobbyists" shows Microsoft as pretty hostile basically immediately.