And I think Jetbrains hits a nice happy medium. I keep my subscription to their IDEs up to date, but if I didn't, I'd still have a license for
older versions.
As user of PHPStorm, I have to agree. I like they way the failback license. I pay the yearly updates right now but if I didn't, it's good know that I have a license that will just work for at least some version of it.
... Old computers make great boat anchors
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