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I've written this article with one simple idea in mind – give for reading to everyone asking me to explain how IntelliJ IDEA is compared to other IDEs. Just now

I've written this article with one simple idea in mind – give for reading to everyone asking me to explain how IntelliJ IDEA is compared to other IDEs. Just now I've also realized that I can use it to explain what we're doing at JetBrains.

farawayea 11y ago
What you're doing is charge people as much as possible by not giving the option of perpetual licensing. That's what you're doing.
- matt4077 11y ago
  Yes, that's what he's doing. Also: doing awesome work and hopefully getting rich with it.
- organsnyder 11y ago
  Not true: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-perpetual-fallback-license- https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
thoughtsimple 11y ago
Yes that is called marketing. I'm not sure it is appropriately marked here on HN.
misterS 11y ago
> with one simple idea in mind Please stop pretending you're not doing this for marketing. IntelliJ is all over "social media" (who would have thought you've already submitted this on Reddit, too [1]) and is constantly pushing a campaign for its products. That's very fine by me – but don't pretend it's not advertisement. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/48xf5h/why_intellij_idea_is_hailed_as_the_most_friendly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/48xf5h/why_intellij_i...