"Hey would you like to subscribe to this hammer? It's only $10 a month whether you use it or not." -Jetbrains

Subscriptions for tools and IDE's is bullshit.

Buy a one off and get a perpetual fallback licence. Simple.

Do your hammers get constant updates?

Community edition?

@k0pernikus what if I am happy with 2016's version of the hammer and I want to keep it?

If I want 2017's hammer, I will go buy it.

Tbh, I have a subscription headphones. Yes, I pay 5 euro a month and when something breaks, all I have to do is login, select the item that broke and it gets delivered within two days mostly including a return envelope in which I can put the broken item and send it back for repair or recycling!

@kaqqao I was really referring to every piece of software that has a subscription model. But wow really?

@deusprogrammer complaining about software with a subscription model? Um... That's how we get paid.

I just don't like the idea of a tool I depend on being held hostage by a subscription.

Professionals prefer to pay for good hammers

Get your employer to pay for it if it's a strain on your personal finances.

Or get a more financially stable job so you don't care about a dollar amount per month that should equate to a quarter of your hourly rate, at a minimum.

@darkcode I can afford it, but I don't want to essentially borrow a tool. If I pay for a tool, I should own said tool.

@deusprogrammer then don't do a subscription and buy the full license. Where's the problem. That's the same as Spotify and Netflix and a lot of people like it. From a psychological point of view its more satisfying to pay a little bit each month instead of paying one huge chunk of money at a given time. I'm pretty sure a lot of developers (like me, those who are maybe not coding every day) therefore went with the subscription instead of the full license.
I study this kind of stuff.
No one is holding you back from buying a full license and therefore giving you the rights to use the software even after the expiration date with all the updates available until that said date.

@linuxxx wow, never heard or a service like that. Do you just use it for headphones? Any link to the website?

@SirWindfield It's a service only for headphones in this case but they only do the Netherlands for now but anyways: https://gerrardst.nl 😃

I didn't even know there was a full license. That changes everything.