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by alcoholic_byte
892 days ago
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This problem composes of the willingness to take away your customers agency and willingly accepting that they are violating their regulations on pain of being fired(It does not make sense for a freelancer to acquire a company license or when someone works in a "use your own IDE"-environment - would've to read the fine-print on the agreement again TBH). The actively "activating the plugin should it be active"-approach or the nagging for it to be enabled, the enabling of the plugin after update in connection with the lethargy of JB makes might be further highlighting of the fact that their intention with this is to have our work build their product against our consent. Another problematic willingness of this vendor is also that they are willing to ship buggy code(as per their description of events) for a very, very sensitive part of functionality and then not engage with their worried customer-base at all. That itself is problematic in the event that there is some problem that might be exploitable(as happened with Youtrack itself). Also, the upending of discussions on this by closing comments and pretty much not moving from their position. (For the legal-departments in companies affected(having employees running JB on a non-commercial license because of policy and having ill configured professional licenses): Question here would also be: how much data was already unlawfully/illegally exfiltrated during those incidents as the plugin was running?) ------ I, for one, am not willing to keep this appliance in my house. Not because the functionality is not great but because the vendor has a track-record of shipping buggy code, has shown the willingness to have their customers potentially infringe regulations by taking away their agency to control what runs on their machine, has displayed a carefree attitude of taking its paying customers seriously and has attempted to make its users a commodity in a two-sided market. ------- You made me look for alternatives. I liked what I saw and thanks to your heinous handling of this matter and your odious way of shipping this functionality I can even live happily without some features(until someone rebuilds them). |
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