Stupid Amounts of Money

[billroper]

Dodeka owns a copy of Adobe Illustrator. I own a copy of Adobe Pagemaker. And I have a several years old copy of Adobe Photoshop LE that can't be upgraded to anything else. Upgrading the first two would cost nearly $600.

Or I can buy the about-to-be-released Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium with Illustrator, InDesign (replaces Pagemaker), Photoshop (full version), Acrobat, and GoLive (the web design package).

My credit card is smoking...

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Smoking it right! Erupting into flames is more like it.

I'm drooling over the Suite myself, but damn...

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

Or if you know anyone who has a student ID at a college campus, you *might* be able to get the software *significantly* cheaper through the college/computer bookstore.

(so says the Professor's wife, who takes advantage of this, saving herself a TON of money for the software that I need for my reelance business)

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I suspect he wants a business legal copy. The EULA on student copies specifically forbids using it in a business. Or it did two versions back.

[billroper]

Actually, yes. I'd really like to remain legal.

[poltr1]

I've often wondered: Other than the price, what significant differences are there between the academic and "regular commercial" versions of software?

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

In my experience, price is about it. An exception, sometimes, is Microsoft Office, which sometimes has an academic edition that leaves off the small business features, or Access, or some other programs.

Of course, the day Microsoft doesn't change the software bundle from year to year within the same edition is the year I buy a lottery ticket and lightning insurance. ;)

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

It depends on the software. Some software have severe restrictions such as limited file import/export features, how many times you can actually *use* the software . .

Some software have practically no restrictions. Microsoft practically gives away their office suites, because they are building brand loyality, etc. Some companies, in particular graphics, number crunching and video production, only students in a particular *class* can buy it at a discount, so you can only get it through the professor vs. the computer store (which is pretty fair, when you consider the full price of these programs).

I don't use many graphic (if any) programs, just word processing, the Office suite, etc. so it's not a big deal for me. I also don't worry about getting technical support because most of the time, I can figure it out myself . . .

Yeeeeessssss....

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Feel the dark side of the force take over, young ben-Doggi - do it, take the Visa card and smite down the fools.

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about Open Source alternatives? "The Gimp" is now available on Windoze and is a good alternative to Photoshop.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Where does one find this marvel?

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

http://www.gimp.org/ of course ;)

[billroper]

That's not an unreasonable thought, but it doesn't solve the Illustrator problem, since I use that program to submit files to the printer for Dodeka.