JetBrains CEO Maxim Shafirov responded to critics of his company's subscription plan in a blog post of his own: "The discussions and feedback that we received after the announcement went public showed that we had failed to properly account for all considerable groups of our customers and articulate our reasoning for the move in the announcement message. Even if JetBrains backpedals on this decision, it is a lesson worth learning." Make no mistake: this is motivated by what's good for their business, not what is good for the developer community. In a blog post published at the time, Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, denounced subscriptions in general and JetBrains in particular: "The news this morning that JetBrains is switching to a subscription-only model is a perfect example of why and how trusting a proprietary tools vendor leaves you and your business exposed to the whims of their profit margins.
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But unconvinced customers complained about the pernicious spread of software "renting" schemes and the risk of committing to tools they don't actually own. JetBrains argued at the time that the change would simplify management of its product licenses and ultimately cost less. 3, and the news generated more than a little negative feedback from its customers. The company announced its plan to switch from a perpetual licensing model to a subscription-only model on Sept. As of Monday, JetBrains, maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, is bundling all its desktop developer tools into the JetBrains Toolbox, and selling those products via a subscription model.
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