Thank you for the second para - good news. I hope, though, that the exceptional good value for money continues, for the reasons in last para below.
The first is still worrying, even if it is “a standard model for software products”.
Would it be such a cost to CR, to allow some perpetual license owners to choose to stop paying maintenance for a year, if business is slow - and then resume and get full update when business picks up again? Even a whole year at a time is quite a big commitment, to trust that business will keep going for that long.
This is obviously an issue for the small or solo user/practitioner; less for a bigger corporate. CR’s E99 deal is very enlightened in this respect, far better than “standard model for software products” - we thank you for that.
Why not further support the small user, who’s moving into needing the full unlimited product, with a more liberal, flexible deal on maintenance?
I’m sure CR is aware of how exceptionally cost-attractive RC is to the small user (in addition to its unique technical advantages), and realises what a growing loyal user-base is being created by the E99 deal - and more.