On Feb 1, 2014, at 2:29 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
> on 2014-02-01 13:32 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote >> The good part about the rental subscription licensing is that if you try >> things out and then find you don't really need/use it, you can just opt out. >> Convert your work to standards based formats (TIFF and PDF), archive the >> projects, etc. Then, if you find you need it again, just reactivate your >> subscription. >> >> If I were doing occasional projects that needed these apps, that's exactly >> how I'd work it. And it would take a few years at $50/month for three/four >> months per year to equal even the single purchase of Creative Suite, never >> mind updates. > > you can't do a three/four months per year at $50/month - it is $75/month > without a year's commitment Sure. Still not a problem. That's $300 for four months use, always with the latest. Creative Suite was like $1500 or so, so after you use it this way for five years, you've paid the equivalent of one CS price but no further update charges. CS would need a $500 update every 18 months or so on the perpetual license. To me that is a bargain if I'm getting the work I need done with it. > also, if don't you want to download everything all over again, you will want > to leave it installed when your subscription expires, however the updater it > will keep checking and notifying you even though you aren't eligible for > updates I have several hundred gigabytes of storage space available on my startup drive. And I can disable the updater… However, with a fast network at my disposal, I'd just delete and re-download. Not a big deal at all. I doubt I'll ever do it, however, since I have no need now or in the foreseeable future. Never say never though. ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
