On 4/23/14, 1:53 PM, Francis Reyes wrote:
Office 365 is $10 a month, Adobe Creative Cloud (what used to be their Creative
Suite) is $50 a month with an annual commitment.
Licensing the use of software on a time-limited basis as a business model seems
like it's going to stick around.
And that's why I am sticking with my last copy of Adobe Creative Suite
6, as long as it will run on a computer. When CS6 no longer works, I
might be interested in moving to gimp and inkscape, which I had never
considered before.
I fully support Schrodinger to charge for an update, and they have
vastly improved PyMOL. But being told to re-buy PyMOL annoys me, even
though I would renew anyway just to support PyMOL development, and I can
compile it just fine. (The expiring XDS binaries are also annoying, but
there the software is free and the only purpose of the expiration is to
force people to update, which I fully support.)
I am hoping that Schrodinger will have a different model for academics.
SBGrid is a also good option if you can afford it. It comes with PyMOL
licenses.
Engin
