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New Jetbrains Update Dropped (programming.dev)

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As the saying goes, if a product is free then that means you are the product

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

In this case, the product was free to OSS developers not because they were the product, but because they're influencers likely to end up encouraging their users and/or employers to buy the paid version, so it was the marketing that those people could do that was the product.

This change with the data harvesting makes those developers the product, though.