The reason why it works well for Autodesk and Adobe is the fact that they have a defacto monopoly in their fields. My boss doesn&#x27;t like the fact that they have a subscription scheme but we have one for Adobe Cloud because there isn&#x27;t another way. That is not the case for an IDE. I really like PyCharm and PHPStorm but I can (and also would) drop them in a heartbeat.<p>You will always find some (edge) case who can profit from these kind of schemes - an amateur photographer for example with Adobe CC or somebody who uses all the jetbrain tools - but there are a lot of cases that are a different and really don&#x27;t have any benefits of using SAAS.<p>In Flanders we have a saying that goes a bit like this: &quot;all small things makes on big thing&quot;. The personal problem that I have is that if I would add all those &quot;inexpensive&quot; subscriptions of services it will add up very fast to a point that it is becoming really expensive. I don&#x27;t buy all software in a single month or can even wait for upgrading if an older version is good enough for me, with SAASS that is not the case.<p>But I have the same opinion that this race to convert all commercial software to SAAS will be beneficial for OSS alternatives. Personally I would even go as far as donating (or crowdfund) (for the same amount that I would give to jetbrains) to an OSS project, if that means that I would get an alternative that I don&#x27;t need to &quot;rent&quot;.