In the previous thread on the announcement I expressed some concerns (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10165919" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10165919</a>).  An employee responded:<p>&quot;I see this is turning into a conspiracy theory )
Fortunately, there&#x27;s a little thing called competition that prevents raising rates at will without facing the consequences, and JetBrains is no exception: we&#x27;re no monopoly&quot;<p>So the message first was &quot;We did this for YOU!&quot; and then quickly became &quot;Hey!  You can always go elsewhere...&quot;<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like something they did for my benefit.