To be honest I'm not totally adverse to paying an annual Service Support fee - at least I now know when it's due and can budget for it. In the past I generally always purchased the latest updated version (bearing in mind I'm 'only' a PGD user, so no huge expense).
I'm not quite so pleased about some other aspects of the current Support Service, like the lack of updates, new features and bug fixes, but suppose in the end I just accept "that's the way it is" and try and make the best of it.
Unlike many other forum members here, I am not using the software for commercial purposes and therefore might have a different view on all this if that were the case, particularly the slow release of bug fixes!
Anyway, I've given this some thought and this is the way I see it (let me know if I've got it wrong!) ;)
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