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I always liked the Sublime Text model. You pay once, and keep your licence no matter where you work. Same with my keyboard. I like to own my tools.
by jessekv 3y ago
I always liked the Sublime Text model. You pay once, and keep your licence no matter where you work. Same with my keyboard. I like to own my tools.
- watermelon0 3y agoJetbrains tools are the same; you can buy personal subscription, and use the tools no matter where you work. If you have a subscription for 12 consecutive months, you get perpetual fallback license for version of the tools that were available at the start of the period.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoKeep in mind you can't use personal license at work.
- sverhagen 3y agoYou can, if you paid for it yourself. As long as the employer doesn't "pay, reimburse, or in any way finance your personal license".
- boojing 3y agoYou can: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-I-use-my-personal-license-at-work-and-at-home https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-...
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- npteljes 3y agoTo elaborate, yes, Jetbrains allows for this, but the employer might not. At my company, personal licensed software are up for individual approval.
- genocidicbunny 3y agoEverywhere I've worked the managers liked Sublimes model too. To the point where at one place we built a few plugins for Sublime because so many of the engineers were using it. It was cheap enough that reimbursing engineers for the license was easy to get approved and everyone liked being able to hold onto their individual license after.
- 000ooo000 3y agoLINQPad's model is similar but it didn't stop my last company refusing to allow me to use my personal copy due to "licensing". Some companies (read: managers) just can't be f'd reading a brief web page and applying 10 seconds of thought even if it means there's a chance a developer might be more productive, or god forbid, happier.