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0 pointseitland4y ago0 comments

I'm fairly certain the Jetbrains subscription model is:

(Edit, I had to look it up, the exact wording is:) "You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

Other notably nice app/programs that uses this or similar sane, friendly models including Sublime Text 4 and Jetbrains products:

- Agenda (Mac, iOS) Planner/journal

- Manic Time time tracker (Windows, maybe Mac). This can easily save you many hours a month or help you increase billing.

feel free to add more examples here, we should make some positive noise about companies that don't abuse their customers.

(Please don't misunderstand me: Open source is often even lovlier but there are plenty of lists of Free/Open source software.)

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jay_kyburz4y ago

I let my rider license lapse and I did have to "downgrade" to keep using it.

eitlandOP4y ago

But only to the last version that you had paid for 12 months, right?

jay_kyburz4y ago

I only had one year, so it was the release when I first paid.

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0 pointseitland4y ago0 comments

I'm fairly certain the Jetbrains subscription model is:

(Edit, I had to look it up, the exact wording is:) "You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

Other notably nice app/programs that uses this or similar sane, friendly models including Sublime Text 4 and Jetbrains products:

- Agenda (Mac, iOS) Planner/journal

- Manic Time time tracker (Windows, maybe Mac). This can easily save you many hours a month or help you increase billing.

feel free to add more examples here, we should make some positive noise about companies that don't abuse their customers.

(Please don't misunderstand me: Open source is often even lovlier but there are plenty of lists of Free/Open source software.)

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jay_kyburz4y ago

I let my rider license lapse and I did have to "downgrade" to keep using it.

eitlandOP4y ago

But only to the last version that you had paid for 12 months, right?

jay_kyburz4y ago

I only had one year, so it was the release when I first paid.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse