&gt; What an incredible whinge and whine.<p>What a bullshit way to start your own complaint. There is absolutely nothing wrong with people complaining about this.<p>&gt; Why are people so resentful about paying money for their incredibly useful primarily development tool?<p>It&#x27;s not about the money, it&#x27;s about the principle. Poor people rent things. That&#x27;s how they stay poor. How would you feel if you woke up one morning and couldn&#x27;t go buy some eggs from the supermarket until you joined their club for 100$ a month? You&#x27;d go to another supermarket. What if you couldn&#x27;t buy a car, only lease one?<p>&gt; Loving the tool enough to use it but hating on a company enough to declare it&#x27;s lost all its customer loyalty makes my blood boil.<p>Have you ever heard the saying &quot;You have to love someone before you hate them?&quot; Does that saying also make your blood boil?<p>&gt; Also, how does this guy elevate himself to the all-knowing position to declare from his personal opinion how much customer loyalty JetBrains has actually lost?<p>Because he&#x27;s talking about himself and his own loyalty to the company?<p>&gt; I want the companies who make great software to make money and keep doing it.<p>OK. But if people disagree with the pricing model and it drives away customers, that&#x27;s not going to work either and no amount of your own whining is going to stop that.<p>&gt; This guy should just go use a different product that he doesn&#x27;t have to pay for.<p>Yeah it&#x27;s a good solution. I think that&#x27;s what he said he&#x27;d do in the last paragraph.  Many of the comments here and on his blog echoed the same thing saying that they&#x27;d use Eclipse or NetBeans instead.