They protect their source code by releasing awesome products that developers happily pay for (I do).
Accurate. JetBrains IDEs are the only ones I'll use. Webstorm, PyCharm, GoLand - all wonderful.
Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?
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Re: Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?
#22I don't think they see this as a problem. If people really want to decompile the code they could. Most of it is open source already and the codebase is very large to make any competing product out of it.
Re: Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's $40 a month for every product. That's affordable for anyone.
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)
Yeah, exactly. It's cheaper than an iPhone, whereas something like Visual Studio is more like the price of a used car.