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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.

    Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.

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      4 months ago

      They are “buy once” in that their licenses include perpetual fallback. Whenever you stop paying, you retain your licenses perpetually

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Not whenever, you need to be paying for a year and then then the latest version from a year ago is what you get the perpetual license for

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      4 months ago

      if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.

      But you can continue using the older version, yes?

      • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.