Well as s/w improvements don't necessarily happen on a yearly basis, but people
like being paid each year, I think the model is not unreasonable, as long as
the cost is reasonable - which, for instance, the Adobe s/w isn't. As one can
tell from the profit margins of s/w companies. So I do pay my Schrodinger
PyMol licenses each year.
just my 2c
Adrian
On 23 Apr 2014, at 20:24, Engin Özkan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
