> Hi Eugene.
> I would love to buy my own licence. The company I am contracting for at the > moment has bought about 20 (I introduced it here and it spread like mad!), > but I would like one in my own name as well, especially if it is only $200. > I am a contractor working through a limited company consisting of just me > and one other person. Obviously I would like to charge this license to my > company. Unfortunately, the following statement makes this impossible: You too eh :-) > > ... However please read our license > > agreement, the license is non-transferrable, so that even if your > > company pays for your license it will never own it anyway. > IANAL, but under UK law I believe the company cannot "pay for" things > without owning them. Otherwise I could get the company to pay for my house > and my Christmas shopping! I would need a VAT invoice made out to my > company for the license so that I can claim it as an expense (and get the > VAT back). Well there may not be VAT involved with IntelliJ � if they bill from the EU and you supply your VAT number, they need not charge you tax. If they bill you from the USA they will probably not charge you sales tax either. You can tell I haven't got this far in the registration process yet :-) > Can you change the wording on the license so that this is the case? For > instance, you could set a limit of only 1 "personal" license per company > which would get round this restriction. (Or even say that each company can > buy the first license for $200 and all the rest for $400, and not draw a > distinction between the different types of license). This would help me > very much, and other contractors too I'm sure. Yes, that would be quite a good solution. It's a good application of the "stone soup" story too. Any company that gets a $200 copy of IDEA for internal "unlimited eval" may well be more likely to buy more full price copies when they see how good it is. Also, independent contractors/consultants like us are often brought into companies that do not have employees of the same experience level. Such employees may not normally see the benefits of an IDE like IDEA � so helping contractors / industry professionals like this might actually stimulate more corporate sales. Bah, I'm starting to sound like Microsoft. Ha ha, are we MVPs (Most Valued Professionals) who deserve special treatment because we will evangelise about your products. LOL. All the above could be completely without basis, but I think not. I know my client just bought lots of copies because I recommended it. Cheers _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
