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And I recognize that I'm biased as a JetBrains fanboy, but I think it is just a stellar deal to pay $173/year for the all-you-can-eat pack where you get to keep them if you stop paying

I know folks are going to call out that the entry price is $289/year, but I still think for the number of included products that's still a deal

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I just wish they offered "3rd world economy" prices for those of us not living in rich countries. I would even be totally ok with providing my National ID card to prevent fraud, just like with Hetzner.

The all products pack costs an entire (software developer) month's salary where I live.

Out of curiosity, have you contacted their sales team to explain your position? I could see that going either way: maybe they consider just one sale to be more trouble than it's worth, or they could see that as yet more good will and [I would presume] making an evangelist in your peer group

Also, depending on your tech stack, the IntelliJ and PyCharm Apache 2 releases are pretty strong. Obviously if you're in C++, Golang, Ruby, or Rust things are going to be harder without the full JetBrains tooling

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