Introducing Atom-IDE

Re:Introducing Atom-IDE by khedoros1 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:43PM (#15233121)

I looked at the page, but didn't read the definition of "perpetual fallback license". Thank you for the clarification.

It still seems bizarre that one standard case is that you pay for a subscription, presumably using version x, and then are pushed down to version x-1 if you didn't subscribe for at least a year under version x.

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Re:Introducing Atom-IDE by greenshackle2 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:02PM (#15233295)

Thinking about it a bit more yeah, when you stop subscribing you might have to roll back 12 months of updates on your machine, which is pretty odd. Clearly they want to discourage you from doing it.

At least bug fixes are included:

"The license also includes all bugfix updates, more specifically in X.Y.Z version all Z releases are included."

I can understand giving you the major version at the time you bought the subscription but it's a bit stingy to exclude minor version bumps (Y releases).

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Re:Introducing Atom-IDE by innocenat on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:39AM (#15236034)

It's not minor version bump. JetBrains doesn't use semver. X.Y is typically a major release, with X being the year (e.g. 2017.2)

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