Well I do have to say, nealry all 3D apps are grossly to expensive.
DAZ shows the way: if you flog it cheap, they will come! ;)

But, for small outits like E-On, they need our money to pay for their families ot have lives.

I'd love it if all software and content is free, I'd give all my stuff away, quite happily, but...we live in a greedy, idiotic system (look at recent events), our system sucks, but it doesn't suck as bad as any other system, folk have to be realistic. I may loathe what we have created, and use my art to escape it, but I also know everything else is worse, much, much worse. 
So...shrugs :(

Anyway, if folk are serious about art, get Espirt or higher, it's well worth it. Just ocmpare the prices of say, DIY tools...a good tool box and power tools can easily set you back £500+. If you buy cheap crap...you pay for it, either in accidents, broken tools you have to constantly replace, or rubbish work.

The non-commercial license and CPU limits are incredibly bloody stupid though, I must say.
I bought Rhino at college, grossly over priced app, no way I could afford it without educational license, but...Rhino license was full commercial useage even for educatiion package!

Write E-On some letters, I'd suggest :)

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