I wonder sometimes, cost seems to be the most common reason given here.  Then I start looking at some of the other things I do and comparing costs.  I have an array of metal and woodworking equipment, machines, and I know setting up from scratch with even fairly good machines is going to cost a lot more than any given piece of software.  My woodworking machines, guessing, but I'd say somewhere around $5000 would buy probably most of what I have, the metalworking, closer to $10000.  When I bought my organ, $7260, and I know I have more than $5000 in my guitars.  Then the kicker, my eyes gone bad.  The woodworking, sharp things going very fast, and my fingers probably too close to fast moving sharp things.  Metal working requires a degree of precision, and I can't read my calipers or micrometers.  Reading even a machinists scale, no, I can't see that either.  The organ is defunct, but it's also 35 years old, probably repairable, but again, I can't see the little fine wires I'd have to work with. 

Maybe the cost is a relative thing, looking at what we put into it  against what we get out of it.  And Poser Pro 2012 suddenly doesn't look that bad in price, even at the full price.  Even there, with the discounts for Poser Pro, I paid more for a large monitor than I did for the program, so I could use the program.  Double standard seems to apply.

D.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.