This is more like dated entitlement than subscription.
Most subscriptions have much stronger pressure to renew, including inability to install or download outside subscription period, version limits, software quits working, and, and, and...
I'd call it purchase plus support period but it may be the enterprise IT geezer in me :->
JetBrains also has a similar license for yearly subscriptions, where you can keep using whatever version was supported at the end of the license.
No. The version you will perpetually have access to is the last version released one year before the expiry of your license. So if you get a one-year license and don't renew it, you only retain access to the version you first bought, not any new ones released during the year.
You get a license and access to all updates released for duration. But if your license is not renewed at the end, you lose access to updates in the year/time since you bought the license.
You still keep original version at the time you purchased license for as long as you want, though.
(Edit, I had to look it up, the exact wording is:) "You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.
Other notably nice app/programs that uses this or similar sane, friendly models including Sublime Text 4 and Jetbrains products:
- Agenda (Mac, iOS) Planner/journal
- Manic Time time tracker (Windows, maybe Mac). This can easily save you many hours a month or help you increase billing.
feel free to add more examples here, we should make some positive noise about companies that don't abuse their customers.
(Please don't misunderstand me: Open source is often even lovlier but there are plenty of lists of Free/Open source software.)
This is purchasing (not subscription), but that includes 3 years of upgrades too.
