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> Even if Unity walks this back 100%, why would a dev trust them not to pull this again in the future?

This is why I stopped paying JetBrains, despite them 100% walking back their idiotic licensing change proposal many years ago. I love(d) the products, but could no longer trust the decision-makers.

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PaulKeeble2y ago

They went back to the monthly billing with no option for buying a version permenantly. I think you can still fix your version for a while without upgrades but they will force an upgrade at some point now. The original issue I complained about has returned.

maccard2y ago

I don't know of them for ing an upgrade. If you subscribe for 12 months you get perpetual access to the version that was available when you subscribed, so you can buy a version for 12 monthly subscriptions. There's nothing wrong with that IMO

Macha2y ago

Jetbrains?

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

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544479-Subs...

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

sangnoirOP2y ago

> 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

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