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Your Google Drive/DropBox/OneDrive storage space or your IntelliJ IDEA feature level (Basic/Pro/Ultimate) is also remotely controlled by how much you pay. What
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Your Google Drive/DropBox/OneDrive storage space or your IntelliJ IDEA feature level (Basic/Pro/Ultimate) is also remotely controlled by how much you pay.
What's the resale value of the IntelliJ IDEA that you "own"?
Funny how HN thinks that's perfectly fine, but if you do this to cars suddenly it's a dystopian nightmare.
- MegaThorx 4y agoGoogle Drive/DropBox and OneDrive has continued costs for the hosting provider and for this reason a subscription makes complete sense. IntelliJ IDEA can be bought as a perpetual license [1] and the subscription just gives you access to the latest version. The increased acceleration would make sense if it was a one time payment but as a subscription its nonsense. Mercedes has no costs for it after they produced the car. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#commercial https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#commercial (All yearly subscriptions include a perpetual fallback license.)
- PaulWaldman 4y agoA better analogy is Office 365. Traditionally preputial licenses were purchased. Now consumers have become accustomed to purchasing access to the desktop applications through a subscription.