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  • @tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3816 days 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.

    • @nectar@lemmy.world
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      1816 days 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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        315 days 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