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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by ehnto on Thursday June 29, 2017 @04:54AM (#14661719)
It is worth noting JetBrains still offer buy it once and own it licenses, and even their subscription grants you an eternal license to the particular version you were on when you stopped subscribing.
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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by detaro on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:43AM (#14661920)
> then re-joined them when they went to "Subscription + keep your start of subscription version forever".
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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by ehnto on Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:00AM (#14661995)
Oh, yeah I missed that. Cheers!
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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by nightski on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:44AM (#14661925)
I'm pretty sure it's to the version that is 12 months behind when you stopped subscribing. You have to subscribe for an entire year to own the version when you started.

So if you subscribe for 12 months, and then cancel, you actually have to revert back to a version 1 year old. It's pretty messed up.

Plus the updates have REALLY been lacking. They have missed the quarterly releases regularly and it just feels like very little has actually been added.

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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by codewithcheese on Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:11AM (#14662039)
Your essentially paying for the product at the time of your payment and a 12 month subscription to updates. From that point of view it makes some sense that once your subscription is finished you revert back to the original product you bought you when subscribed. It does seem unnecessarily punitive though.
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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by 0xTJ on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:44AM (#14671055)
I prefer the model with Matlab, where you pay once, get a year of updates, and keep the last version.
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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by chasing on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:17AM (#14663022)
> So if you subscribe for 12 months, and then cancel, you actually have to revert back to a version 1 year old. It's pretty messed up.

It would be, but that's not how it works.

I believe you just get to keep using whatever you were using when you stopped payments. You have access to minors updates to that version, but not to major updates from version to version.

I think it's a smart balance.

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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by nightski on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:23PM (#14665651)
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

Read that again. It's exactly how it works.

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Re:O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on it... by chasing on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:40PM (#14665799)
You are correct! Sorry for the bad info.
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