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This is not a wholly black and white world, though. Consider jetbrains: you have a subscription, true, but once you cancel you can still download and use whate

This is not a wholly black and white world, though. Consider jetbrains: you have a subscription, true, but once you cancel you can still download and use whatever was the latest version released during your paid period. Uou get a perpetual license for it. Seems fair if you accept the fact your IDE no longer “moves fast” along with the ecosystem that seems to have a cult of perpetual churn. Some can afford it, some cannot, but the choice is there. Consider also the braindead app store model where they expect that you pay $8.99 once for a small app, but all the updates are free after that. How do you fund the continued development and bugfixes? I guess that’s why there are subscriptions to text editors even if they don’t require another account or a cloud. Or you can create what essentially is the same app under another name, in which case it’s difficult or impossible to have upgrade pricing. And discoverability sucks too. Gotta survive somehow, or else we cannot have nice things.

dcminter 5y ago
> once you cancel you can still download and use whatever was the latest version released during your paid period I think it's actually the version that you started your paid period with, so usually a slightly older version. I think this is fair though. Edit: It depends. See: 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...
- asaddhamani 5y ago
  When you cancel, the fallback license is for the version that was latest 12 months ago.
BatteryMountain 5y ago
Was about to mention Jetbrain's perpetual license system which is the best of both worlds. I greatly appreciate their system.
- WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
  It kind of reflect the model where by subscriptions, you fund the ongoing development. Also a nice move that when you cancel, your installed software doesn't stop working. As far as I remember, they generate a product key that can be used for perpetual licenses and the software won't be phoning home.

dcminter 5y ago

> once you cancel you can still download and use whatever was the latest version released during your paid period I think it's actually the version that you started your paid period with, so usually a slightly older version. I think this is fair though. Edit: It depends. See: 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...

asaddhamani 5y ago
When you cancel, the fallback license is for the version that was latest 12 months ago.

BatteryMountain 5y ago

Was about to mention Jetbrain's perpetual license system which is the best of both worlds. I greatly appreciate their system.

WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
It kind of reflect the model where by subscriptions, you fund the ongoing development. Also a nice move that when you cancel, your installed software doesn't stop working. As far as I remember, they generate a product key that can be used for perpetual licenses and the software won't be phoning home.