Frankly, I support this.<p>We need to pay more for software, not less.  The Freemium model is killing products because you can&#x27;t make any money from writing programs anymore unless you get a huge homerun.  People only want to pay $0.99 for a program that took months of man-hours to write.  $5.99?  Fuck it, that&#x27;s too expensive!<p>IntelliJ is magic to me.  It&#x27;s a wonderful piece of software, and I generally do not like Java.  But it has transformed the entire experience.<p>Companies like JetBrains needs to be incentivized to write this kind of software, and innovate on it.  They&#x27;re not going to if they have leeches that use the free version in perpetuity.  And if they change to a subscription model, then good for them.<p>If you use IntelliJ in a professional context, and you make a decent wage, a large part of it is because of IntelliJ, so you should pay up.  $200&#x2F;year is nothing compared to other things people spend money on like Starbucks, DirecTV, gas, etc.