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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by yodon on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:14PM (#16450088)
If most people are shifting from a free product to a paid product the chances are most of those people don’t consider the paid product to be inferior
Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by nilsbunger on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:17PM (#16450111)
there's a free IntelliJ too
Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by fma on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:25PM (#16450162)
My company paid for licenses, but I wouldn't pay for it personally. Same with JRebel.

So a better answer may be, they have been improving their sales team.