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0 pointsyarg3y ago0 comments

I paid for intellij - damned near the entire architecture team where I worked had a copy, and the company sure as shit wasn't the one paying for it.

(I eventually stopped subscribing, in part because they were too slow distancing themselves from Russia, in part because of their movement away from open source with their newer tooling.)

Developers will pay for software, if the value proposition is there.

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lolinder3y ago

> in part because they were too slow distancing themselves from Russia

I'd cut them some slack here. They had to get their team out of there first—with the way Putin is running things, they sure as hell couldn't announce they were leaving Russia until everyone who was going to follow them was out of there.

On the day of the invasion they tweeted a statement condemning the attack, and within two weeks announced they were leaving Russia.

https://twitter.com/jetbrains/status/1496786254494670851?lan...

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...

yargOP3y ago

I cancelled the subscription long before the full on invasion.

Two weeks was impressive, just not impressive enough to get me to renew.

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