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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The base version of IntelliJ is FOSS, and they kinda offer perpetual licenses for their paid applications. If you subscribe for an entire year, you get a perpetual fallback license. It's just a license for an older version of the software, but you get to keep it forever. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-a-perpetual-fallback-license

You know that any software that requires a login or can update on its own can be bricked at a moment's notice if someone in legal or accounting changes their mind about the whole "perpetual" thing.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't auto update and you don't need to login. You can enter your key directly.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does it require internet at any point to activate/check the key? If so it's the same with extra steps.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 5 points 6 months ago

There's a dialog within the program to enter your key though I haven't checked if it connects to the internet at that point. I use an account so I can easily use it on several computers.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

This is true, but compared to the prevailing alternative I'll take it. Unless there's a viable FOSS alternative for whatever software we're talking about at the time, of course. :P