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To be fair, JetBrains did attempt to get rid of perpetual licenses too at one point, the plan they backed away from - after massive blowback - was to brick cust
by sangnoir 3y ago
To be fair, JetBrains did attempt to get rid of perpetual licenses too at one point, the plan they backed away from - after massive blowback - was to brick customers' IDEs as soon subscriptions lapsed.
- chii 3y agoAnd the reason the backlash worked is because there are at least viable alternatives to intellij (at worst you go back to eclipse, or switch to vscode or any number of other lesser known IDEs). Therefore jetbrain cannot afford to alienate their customer base. Unlike vmware or adobe.