The basic software like the Intellij Community Edition is also fully open source. (And it's not actually basic at all. It's a great full featured IDE)

Basically you're only paying for their support/updates and for specific language and toolkit support, which makes sense to me. They need to pay their staff somehow.

It's not comparable to Adobe or other crappy manufacturers where you own nothing.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

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.