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In general, but sometimes commercial software can make life better. I use the JetBrains IDEs, I have no issue paying for them, I can install them on as many ma
by ilc 2y ago
In general, but sometimes commercial software can make life better.
I use the JetBrains IDEs, I have no issue paying for them, I can install them on as many machines as I need etc.
If I make more FOSS, by using a non FOSS tool, it is worth it to me.
I value clarity of licensing above all. The non-commercial, can't use it in military applications or can't use it to save puppies ware is the stuff I really hate.
Do I prefer FOSS, yes, do I try to cut back over to emacs and neovim every so often, yeah. Do I stay where I am for now, so I can be more productive... Yeah.
- ensignavenger 2y agoI have tried to use JetBrains IDEs a few times because I hear they are great and more productive, but I find that I don't know them well enough to be more productive in them... so I think to myself "do I really want to invest the time to learn this tool if it could be made unavailable to me in the future". To be fair to JetBrains, once you buy a license, you always own the license to the last version while you had a subscription, so you are never really cut off from using the old version... however, I also prefer to be able to fork and continue to evolve my tools. So yeah, JetBrains has one of the best proprietary software release models I have ever seen. I just haven't ever been able to justify jumping in when I am already used to the open source alternatives. All the praise to Jetbrains though, they have a great model and they really support a lot of open source development too!