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Re:How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Fe... by bb0wn on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:59AM (#10171250)
And this is one of the many reasons why I've not used paid IDEs. I feel bad for everyone over a barrel with JetBrains because they've dedicated so much of their time developing in their lovely IDEs (many of my co-workers use their products.)

This is not to say that a SaaS model is necessarily bad... it's just that, as a user, one is now beholden to the whims of a company for what is perhaps the most critical part of their work flow.

Re:How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Fe... by jonhohle on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:30PM (#10172085)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stallman - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html