[sangnoir]

> Jetbrains?

Yes!

> Seems the same model it was when they moved to subscriptions

Indeed, but there was a period of brain-dead decision making in 2015 where they announced a very different direction and back-tracked 2 weeks later.

They announced plans for an evergreen subscription model, but the flip side was that they'd brick your IDE (with no fallback) the moment your subscription lapsed[1]. The only reason the subscription model seems unchanged from their initial one was because of the outrage their controversial change generated.

I found this unconscionable - they backtracked (faster than Unity to their credit, but still)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10170089

[Macha]

Yes, that was years ago, the "move to subscriptions" that the since in my post referred to. The parent poster was claiming they'd backtracked since on getting the perpetual fallback license, which doesn't seem true.

[sangnoir]

Got it - I mixed up the reply levels