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by noonespecial 5813 days ago
Me. I will.

My modus operati when I need an expensive piece of software is to pirate half a dozen different packages that claim to do what I want, evaluate them, then purchase the one that best does the job.

Wrong? Maybe. But there is a whole lot of hype when it comes to that sort of thing and I can't afford to weed it out at full price right now. Better (less crippled) evaluations (or evals at all) would help.

Sometimes I even find that what I thought I was trying to do was not what I wanted to do after all, but I usually end up buying something.