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by m-p-3 394 days ago
It's always the lifetime of the version or the lifetime of the software, never your lifetime.
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By lifetime I mean you can use it as long as you like without having to pay again. So it depends on how you get the software, if it’s web based then yes there may be a lifetime of the software but if you install it on your machine then you will stop getting bug fixes or security updates at some point but software itself won’t stop working until your hardware dies.