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Jetbrains has a huge marketing presence and lives off a small number of users to pay the bills. They infiltrated my college and got all of our students to use
by deregulateMed 5y ago
Jetbrains has a huge marketing presence and lives off a small number of users to pay the bills.
They infiltrated my college and got all of our students to use phpstorm for free. Upon graduation they smack you with a huge cost to continue.
I imagine quite a few grads didn't want to learn a new IDE.
- judge2020 5y agoTo be fair, having it for individual use comes at a fair price[0]. The real money[1] is when the grad students go into their jobs and demand jetbrains IDEs since, as you said, they don't want to learn a new IDE. 0: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#personal?billing=yearly https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#personal?billing=yea... 1: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#commercial?billing=yearly https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/#commercial?billing=y...
- halifaxbeard 5y agoI’ve brought my jetbrains license with me to three jobs. I see an IDE as no different than a mechanic’s tools, and relatively speaking a personal JB license is less money than a mechanic spends on tools in a year.
- judge2020 5y agoTechnically, if it’s a personal license, that’s violating the license terms since jetbrains only grants it to you for non-commercial use, but I’m not aware of them enforcing this to any degree.
- rbolkey 5y agoYou are allowed to use your personal license at work. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-I-use-my-personal-license-at-work-and-at-home- https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-...
- spaetzleesser 5y agoI find Jetbrains quite acceptable compared to other commercial dev tools. Their licensing is also easy to manage.