Whatever your issues with the price, this comment is truly wild. When you’re using commercial PyCharm, you’re paying JetBrains to “run their software on your hardware.”

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ceuk 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

A one-off software license (or even a subscription) is completely different. The issue is metered billing for something you are paying for already which costs the company nothing. The equivalent is not only paying a flat monthly fee to Adobe for access to Photoshop, but also an additional charge for how long you have it open on your machine every month.

	▲	scott_w 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I’d like to introduce you to Oracle and many software companies pre-SaaS that were charging per core. If I recall correctly, Atlassian’s CI product also charged you for parallel jobs back in the day. And businesses were paying it because they felt it gave them value for money.

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dijit 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

paying for the time the debugger is active would feel bad though.