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IntelliJ IDEA Open Sourced

Added: October 15, 2009

Tags: idea

I did not see that coming.

It is very nice of them. I hope it will help them to spread the IDEA more. I am often considered to be weirdo by my colleagues (present and past), because I pay for editor while I can have "worse one" for free.

I understand Jetbrains needs to keep some income so they have split it to Community and Ultimate Editions. Unfortunately I am addicted to some features from Ultimate Edition so I might stick with paying one in the future. I hope it will not get more expensive to compensate for "lost sales". I will see, maybe I will be able to downgrade, or I will just buy cheaper RubyMine as my "web development" is done in Ruby.

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