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    21 year ago

    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.

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      31 year 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

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        11 year ago

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

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          51 year 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.