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[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 52 points 6 months 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 19 points 6 months 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.

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