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    $600 per year or $3,000 every 4 years.
    $240 per year or $1,000 every 4 years.

    The choice is yours.

    Some Adobe products have stagnated, but that happens regardless of business model. Fireworks has barely changed since Fireworks MX 2004, and yet you've still had to buy it over and over again just to get bug fixes and support for new operating systems. I think I've bought it three times now.

    At the end of the day "ownership" of modern software is pretty much useless, since the software eventually expires as a result of obsolescence and lack of support. We aren't talking about 10 year cycles either. We are talking about <5 years. In some cases <3 years. It's not like media. An MP3 purchased in 2001 will play in iTunes 11 just fine. Photoshop CS2, from 2005, can't even be installed on OS X 10.8.
    Last edited by ImaNihilist; 05-17-2013 at 07:30 PM.

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