On 22 Aug 2004 at 15:02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > How many of you who are not upgrading to 2k5 would be > willing to pay the same price as the upgrade to continue using 2k4?
Not me. I pay for upgrades when the accumulation of improvements becomes great enough to justify paying again 50% of the original price I paid (I bought academic discount of $250 back in 1991 and have paid c. $120 for each upgrade, 3.52, then 97, then 2K3). It generally takes two or three releases of Finale before I find the upgrade compelling. I also know that I've won many a software contract when bidding against subscription-based software. In my experience, companies *hate* paying subscriptions for software, and I don't blame them. If the cost is the same, they'd rather own their software (by paying me to write it), rather than being permanently tied to an outside source. Keep in mind that a subscription model would also mean the software would have to be copy protected in a way that would make it unusable under certain circumstances. I'd never risk my data to that. And I don't see how anyone ever could. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
