alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoCompanies are not your friendsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareFriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year 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-up0·1 year agoWhat do you mean with perpetual fallback license?
minus-squareResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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.
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s good, I think that’s a much better and fairer model than being locked out completely of a thing that you did pay for.
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.
That’s good, I think that’s a much better and fairer model than being locked out completely of a thing that you did pay for.