[selivanovp]

Putin has nothing to do with it, pretty sure he doesn’t even know who they are. JetBrains founders are Russians, but they registered the company in Prague as their goal was foreign markets from the beginning and it was much safer to do business there than in 90’s Russia. Most of their programmers and RnD were Russians, they had close ties with several top Russian Universities to hire students from there. But yes, in 2022 they were told by their Western customers that they have to leave if they want their products to be bought, and JB evacuated from Russia, relocated people and fired those, who refused to leave, blocked Russian customers and in some cases terminated their ongoing licenses, forced their employees to cut any cooperation with Russia (their head of Kotlin decided to quit the company due to this policy and returned to Russia). And since then the quality of JB products has dropped noticeably, they had to cancel some of their products, looks like they still struggle to replace those people they’ve lost and Western companies still refusing to work with them due to a mass amount of ethnic Russians still in place.

[reisse]

> But yes, in 2022 they were told by their Western customers that they have to leave if they want their products to be bought, and JB evacuated from Russia, relocated people and fired those, who refused to leave, blocked Russian customers and in some cases terminated their ongoing licenses, forced their employees to cut any cooperation with Russia (their head of Kotlin decided to quit the company due to this policy and returned to Russia).

And they're still considered Russian company, how hilarious.

They were choosing between being humiliated and losing customers, now they're both humiliated and losing customers.

[selivanovp]

Nobody likes traitors. My guess is that in a couple of years JetBrains gonna be bought by one of the USA corps, most probably Google.

[AlexeyBelov]

Why traitors? That's a very harsh word.