Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!

WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  After having been shafted by sublime text I will never believe anything called a “lifetime subscription” is such.

  Care to elaborate?

  AFAIR SublimeText licenses are always only for a specific major version. And they sometimes might work for the next major version. So, I guess you’ve just installed a newer version for which your lifetime license isn’t valid anymore.

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  • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Before sublime text 3 all updates were included in the single license, not just major revision updates. This was back in 2012.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean, it naturally has to be something that they eventually find a way to charge you something for. If it’s a for-profit business, and if they only sold lifetime subscriptions, they would eventually go out of business.

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  • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then they shouldn’t be called lifetime subscriptions.

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    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/…/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:

      • Upgrade Policy
        A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.
      • Expiration Date
        Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

      You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.

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      • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Licenses for sublime text 2 just said “and future updates”. I remember the “lifetime” thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2012 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That makes zero sense.

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      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Not lying makes zero sense to you?

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• hera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve been using it for 8 years and haven’t paid, is there any benefit for paying?

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