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Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Yes, technically, they're a Czech company. However, their founders as well as most of their R&D staff are currently located in Russia and hence probably paying taxes in Russia rather than the Czech Republic. I don't know about the company's exact structure and where their profit ends up but given their rather small headquarters in Prague in contrast to their huge offices in Saint…
Then should us, Android developers, abandon Kotlin and Android Studio? Both are also Jetbrain's products. Hmm...
Having been a happy customer and user of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm products for years now, I’m myself still rather ambivalent on this issue.
I appreciate them having spoken out against the war, but so far they haven’t taken any active measures that put their money where their mouth is.
Unless they do so, I’ll probably cancel my license once it’s up for renewal and resign to using (inferior) products by other vendors.