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Tools are also free for open-source development: https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/ https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/ And for educational use (teachers)
by nicce 5y ago
Tools are also free for open-source development: https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/ https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/
And for educational use (teachers) as well.
So I don't see a reason to jump on the freemium bandwagon. They offer a lot for free already.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoI wouldn’t call this “free for open-source development”. It’s free for open-source development as long as the developer receives no money. This would literally be stricter than Visual Studio Community except that last I checked the latter refused to work without an online account for more than a month. Needless to say, JetBrains are free to license and price their stuff however they want. But omitting this particular caveat to “free for open source” when important community-led projects regularly struggle to support themselves leaves a bad taste in my mouth. (The same kind of condition was, for example, used to chase curl off the free tier of Travis CI[1].) To their partial credit, JetBrains themselves only make this omission in the first sentence on the linked page and add “non-commercial” in the second. [1]: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7150 https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7150
- nicce 5y agoThat is a good point. My perspective was too pessimitic as never having real money from OSS projects in general.