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Sadly, this is why this space has laggard for so long. Devs don’t want to pay for tooling but expect others to pay for their product.

• Xymist 3y ago
  There is an important differentiator, though. I'm happy to pay _once_ for tooling as a product, and potentially for subsequent major versions. I am not, however, willing to be a source of MRR.
  • gabereiser 3y ago
    I generally agree with this. There’s only one or two tools I’ll begrudgingly subscribe to with this model. I would be way more inclined to use the tools if it were a single purchase and I’ll upgrade when I feel like it. I’m looking at you JetBrains and Adobe…
    • alex23478 3y ago
      JetBrains offer perpetual fallback licenses together with their yearly subscriptions: 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...
      • gabereiser 3y ago
        Then nag you and auto update you to the latest version without a perpetual license.