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Quoting JetBrains,
(emphasis mine)
So it is only temporarily free. Once it's polished it will no longer be free. Better to not get tied in to something that will be taken away from you before long.
You can also just… pay for it? I give money to JetBrains in exchange for incredibly useful tools. It’s okay to pay for things.
What a weird take. You're allowed to pay for whatever you'd like. Personally, I can't afford to pay for any JetBrains product, even if I wanted to.
Not only are there alternatives which may be better overall or better suited to someone's needs, that wasn't even my point. My point was more that it is only temporarily free, and so the parent commenter's comment of "it's free" should be taken with a grain of salt if you're considering the product.
Moreover, we're in the Open Source community: Fleet is neither free nor open source, and pointing that out here is relevant.