On: Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?

[romperstomper]

you can also just pay for 12 months (sometimes it comes with some discount) or just pay month by month during last 12 months and you will have the perpetual fallback license after that which lasts forever (though you won't get updates until you start monthly payments again)

[razakel → romperstomper]

Yeah, exactly. It's cheaper than an iPhone, whereas something like Visual Studio is more like the price of a used car.