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JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

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Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

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Post by phillipcarter »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #13
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about trademarks, patents or licenses. JetBrains made a public statement against the war in Ukraine, now they fear for the safety of the employees left in Russia.

There are political risks to staying as well. They are quite a high profile company within Russia, the government could walk in and demand access to servers or cut them off from the internet in retaliation to the sanctions.

Are they? For a developer audience, sure. But I think there's a reason why they were considered "obscure" but past reporting regarding SolarWinds. They make amazing products, but developer tools aren't exactly a thing most people know about.

Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

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Post by phillipcarter »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #29
jen20 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> another reason I'll be sticking with my FOSS development tools. Here is the repository for IntelliJ [1]. It has an Apache 2.0 license. That is - by any definition - FOSS. It’s clear you have some form of agenda with “political reasons” mentioned. Why not stop being coy and spell it out? [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

While he was a bit of a bellend, Intellij Community is a faint shadow of what you get in the professional-grade tools which are closed source.

Why does that matter? I am personally happy that so much of what they make is free and OSS, and they are entitled to a business for other things too.

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Post by synergy20 »

gentleman11 wrote: post #16

If Russia wanted to double down on cyber attacks, kidnapping some senior dev families and forcing them to compromise JetBrains could be something they might try. I don’t even know what else to use for c++ dev, JetBrains tools are so far ahead of everyone else. Visual studio is so unpleasant to use and needs resharper to be usable

I use clion and have Jetbrains for years, recently two years I'm 100% with vim and decided to not continue renewing Jetbrains(including clion), and yes vim works for c++ with everything I needed(coc.nvim, ale, modern c++ plugins, gdb gui frontend debuggers,etc)

Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

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Post by Semaphor »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #11
Aissen wrote: post #9

Does anyone know how that works ? I'd be open to seeing what is the internal communication. Will the Russian employees be in furlough ? Will they cut access ? How is the business supposed to move forward ?

It's hard to see how they could pay people with so many financial institutions cutting ties.

My understanding is, that there really is no issue paying. There are only 7 banks hit by full sanctions IIRC.
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