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Don't you work for JetBrains? Couldn't the same thing be said for your tools? I love them but they're not cheap.
by cageface 13y ago
Don't you work for JetBrains? Couldn't the same thing be said for your tools? I love them but they're not cheap.
- solomatov 13y agoThe situation is very different here. The core IntelliJ is open source. There're plenty of open source alternatives. So if the license is changed, there're a plenty of options to migrate project to alternative IDEs. In case of Xamarin, there's no such choice. Only Xamarin can compile C# to iOS, and if the license changes, the whole project implemented with the tool is locked in. The only option is to rewrite the whole project with alternative technology. I think, LGPL open source core SDK + paid IDE + paid additional libraries would be a much better choice which mitigates the risk. But Xamarin for some reason decided to choose a different path.