Last year, Jetbrains (makers of arguably the world's best IDE toolset) dropped a bombshell when it announced that it was moving to a subscription model – just like Microsoft, just like Adobe. The uproar was expected, though I think even Jetbrains was taken aback by the level of vitriol smeared ...

It's a lot like coming out of the bunker after a nuclear holocaust. Three weeks ago, Jetbrains, the purveyor of extraordinarily excellent development tools, announced that they were switching from perpetual licences to a subscription model. That's right, rather than buying a licence outright, you paid a regular ...