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For me the winner with Jetbrains is that I can see clear prices, the product is defined and I can cancel easily.

With other enterprise products it takes forever to get pricing, scope of what you buy and how to cancel.

A while ago we had to price Windows for 5000 custom devices and it was infuriating to go through a convoluted process with lots of different people, meetings and whatever.

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I once tried to buy 2 Windows embedded licenses for a prototype. All the official resellers in my country couldn’t even connect me with a person who could give me a quote, without first getting a certification, finishing courses, signing contracts, etc.

We rewrote our application on Linux then, it was much easier than dealing with MS licensing BS.

I'm always amazed when I see the various embedded contexts I find windows out in the wild. Usually when they are glitching out and displaying a start menu or something.

I guess they are operating at a scale where the licensing hell isn't a major roadblock? I don't get it.

Is it an embedded version though? If you see the start menu, probably not. Because you can easily disable it on windows embedded. And configure a lot of other things, that prevent it from glitching out.

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