As of November 2, 2015, we will introduce JetBrains Toolbox—a collection of our popular desktop tools (IDEs, utilities and extensions) available on a monthly or yearly subscription basis.
The revolt is, no pay no developers tool. Aka ransom ware: pay or else we take away your developers tools.
Subscription means DRM, DRM means a hole in the enterprise firewall.
Subscription means: I am in deep trouble if my company digs out that project from 4 years ago and asks me to fix a tiny bug
Subscription means, developments tools failure if you are a Greek citizen that can't pay your taxes anymore.
Most developers in big companies actually have their personal license, because it takes years before the company decide to purchase it. A subscription is definitely not a good idea. Especially when you have a dead in the water project because they ran out of budget this year. In big companies it can take many months even years before you get a go to update to the newest one. Especially when your are in teams the size of 100+. Visual Studio 2010 is still massively used because of this. Code that could not be migrated because they depend on libraries of companies that do not exist anymore.
Jetbrains can go broke in a couple of years. Especially now that developers revolt and do not trust Jetbrains anymore. Your project is a sitting duck when they power off their DRM severs.
Subscription means that Jetbrains is not motived anymore to create new and exciting tools. They got your money, so they stop caring.
The licenses were already yearly. It's not that much of a difference since most companies will purchases yearly subscriptions anyway. Also, it's not ransomware. Your code won't magically disappear or get encrypted or anything.
8 comments
2 u/roznak [OP] 08 Sep 2015 23:00
The revolt is, no pay no developers tool. Aka ransom ware: pay or else we take away your developers tools.
1 u/roznak [OP] 09 Sep 2015 23:22
The reason why this is a stupid idea is this:
0 u/YourDickGotTheHIV 09 Sep 2015 10:29
Well, that's disappointing. There's always sublime text I guess.
1 u/Esqueleto 17 Sep 2015 00:55
Do it! You won't be disappointed. I never knew how much I loved programming until all my variables were pink. sublime3+package manager is the best!
0 u/a_of_s_t 09 Sep 2015 20:51
$20/mo is pretty steep, although I only use PHPStorm, so I guess $8 a month wouldn't be THAT terrible.
1 u/roznak [OP] 09 Sep 2015 21:05
The issue is the ransom ware. Stop paying and you lose your tools.
If your project is tiny, then there is no issue, but if your project space multiple developers for years...
0 u/a_of_s_t 09 Sep 2015 21:07
The licenses were already yearly. It's not that much of a difference since most companies will purchases yearly subscriptions anyway. Also, it's not ransomware. Your code won't magically disappear or get encrypted or anything.
0 u/roznak [OP] 09 Sep 2015 21:14
That won't happen at all. Companies don't like yearly subscriptions at all. Especially not the big ones I have worked for.