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Removing some really evil DRM stuff or cracking some program to avoid registering/activating/jumping through all kinds of hoops is nothing less than self defense in my book. Remember the times when their ideas of DRM included installing root kits on your computer?
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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CDP1802 wrote: Remember the times when their ideas of DRM included installing root kits on your computer
Yeah, but luckily they didn't do that for long, It was too unpopular... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Look for an Open Source version. Get/Use that one.
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Depend on my need I will purchase or rent the software.
Before that I will work with the trial version if I think it’s worth buying then I will purchase it.
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I prefer to pay only when I'm using the software 
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I prefer to pay once and own forever; and with owning, have access to free updates and support (support at least for a priod to time).
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
modified 12-Mar-13 10:41am.
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I tried this model in the 90s, went broke. Think of the poor bugger on the other end of that deal, unlimited support forever, never again.
Then when you don't get all the support you want you scream like a little girl and abuse the crap out of the vendor, trash his rep on the interweb and wonder why you never get a reply to your support demand!
AAahhh don't push that button dammit!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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if it is a software that i would use only once in a year or once in two years, i would rather pay for those months. Otherwise I would prefer to buy once and own it forever if it is in a reasonable price range...!
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Same here
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Same here...
It might also depends on the company financial department approval.
Sometimes they prefer to pay more but only once, or the other way around.
At the end, as long as it fits my needs it's ok for me.
Support can also matter in this case because it can also vary.
Frankly in my case I never needed much support from the software I bought.
Cheers!
Alex
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Agree in principal; but I've yet to actually find an application with a rent payment model when I only need it for a single one off use. Even then for a one-off task I'm a lot more likely to put up with a FOSS app with a stereotypically user hostile interface that only the apps author could love.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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