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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 6 months ago

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

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months 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.

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Ah, makes sense , thanks!

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca -5 points 6 months ago

If I subscribe for 10 years then can't afford it any more I'm rewarded with a 10 year old version of the software? It should be the version that was current when you finished your subscription.

[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

as soon as you pay for 12 consecutive months, you will receive this perpetual fallback license providing you with access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started.

So at most your software will be 1 year old.