Re:Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement
by meddlepal on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:07PM
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Exactly! This had to be one of the stupidest manufactured controversies I had seen.
It's cool they listened and changed it I guess, but the subscription hate thing is ridiculous. Maybe some of these developers should step back and look at their own companies offerings before they start screaming... almost all of us are working on subscription software.
Re:Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement
by sangnoir on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:05PM
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> In a place that is so startup-centric, I can't believe that there is so much pushback against startup-like pricing
That would only makes sense if JetBrains were a startup. No one likes startup-like pricing for the sake of it- even on HN. Do you want 'startup-like pricing' for your car? I for one didn't like the pricing regime because it was retrogressive and changed what I understood to be a purchase into a short-notice rental.
Re:Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement
by hhariri on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:12PM
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Given JetBrains has been around for 15+ years, and given that it was a change in the model in moving to subscription, it was aimed to make the transition as smooth as possible for existing customers and that is why they get the 2nd year free.
I didn't have a problem with the way they were pricing before. It matched nearly every other service I use, and it would have cost less (I guess webstorm cost a whole $20 more a year!). I just assumed that all of the people who were complaining before were the standard "Let's complain about things on the internet" people.
Hence why they aren't showing up here to celebrate... they didn't actually care. Every dev I know IRL that uses JB software didn't care. 90% of them have it purchased for them by their company. I'm one of those who owns his own license, and I still don't care.
In a place that is so startup-centric, I can't believe that there is so much pushback against startup-like pricing.
In the other threads I'd have worried about being down-voted, but those individuals are likely busy creating controversy in some other thread.