alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoCompanies are not your friendsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareFriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoSubscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying. It’s absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWhat do you mean with perpetual fallback license?
minus-squareResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBasically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.
minus-squarecon_fig@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIf you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.
Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.
It’s absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?
Basically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.
If you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.