To be fair JetBrains offers fallback licensing. It's 170e/year if you keep paying for it. You can stop and get to keep the latest version you payed. Example:

To be fair JetBrains offers fallback licensing. It's 170e/year if you keep paying for it. You can stop and get to keep the latest version you payed. Example: IDEA 1.0 is out now and you pay 170e. 12 months later IDEA 1.9 is out .. if you pay another 170e you get to use 1.9+ If you don't pay you stay on IDEA 1.0. If you cancel earlier than 12 months you don't get to keep anything.