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Have pointed out for a while that I:

1. want to pay to keep companies in business

2. unless one can offer me a reasonably priced "all you want from almost everywhere" like Spotify or Apple Music (and even they are just barely good enough for the price), I want to pay by tokens instead of by month.

Exceptions exist: service contracts is a place where I can accept to pay happily monthly for a number of incidents even if 90-something of them aren't used.

I also understand very well that storage has a price even if I forget it.

That said, for us who (tjknk we) remember Microsoft Office from before it became a SaaS I think it went something like this:

You buy Microsoft office x at a crazy price.

Shortly after someone else gets Microsoft Office version y and you start getting documents you can't open.

At some point you give up trying to tell people to use the old format and you pay 25-75% of the original crazy price to upgrade.

And so it goes on.

Jetbrains is one of a few companies that has made a reasonable deal for users in this regard: you get to keep forever the last version you have paid 12 months for. Could probably be improved to 6 months, but compared to everyone else I can think of it is a different league.




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