Feature-wise existing Professional will be same as new Server and existing Personal - same as Pro (but still subject to at-home, non-work-related use only restriction)." - įeatures and licenses overview for upcoming tri-level licensing, from the development blog: In other words, after the licensing model switch there will 5 license types, 3 of which will be available for purchase. They will still be fully supported, but it won't be possible to buy them. At the same point we'll be taking Personal and Professional off the purchase page. Shortly we'll be adding 3 new license types - Basic, Pro, Server. "As of right now we are still on Personal/Professional licenses. (Apparently that fee will be only " 20% of the original cost," so certainly a more significant discount than most devs give for continued updates!) Maintenance releases will remain perpetually free, but the access to milestones releases will be included for one year and require a fee to extend it for another year after that.". Right now both types are included with a license, perpetually. For example, release 79 is the former and releases 79.1, 79.8, etc. More info re: licensing change (emphasis added and a few typos corrected):įrom the dev, Alex Pankratov: "There are two types of updates - milestone (feature) releases and maintenance (bugfix) releases. By my understanding, if you go to buy and you see that the Purchase page lists a "Basic" license option, you've missed the boat and the newer licensing terms are already in effect. Also, sounds like ( potentially disadvantageous) licensing changes are imminent, so for anyone wanting to purchase the program, right now may be the best time to do so. *long post warning*-TL DR Settings are portable, but licensing is per-machine and explicitly NOT. Thanks, webfork and Midas, for your posts about Bvckup 2-I've been using the free old beta for several years now, but you and the info reproduced below finally convinced me now is the time to buy it. I was surprised by the price (currently 20 USD) and could make the case that the program will pay for itself in the overall life of your backup device, especially if you use a flash/SSD. I haven't tested the commercial version, but being self-contained is baked right in and sounds like the dev had this plan early on and plans to keep it, I'd be surprised if the current process listed for the old beta didn't work on the commercial version. Also this is the first changelog I've read in some time that was actually somewhat pleasant to read and didn't just come off as a shopping list. So this program is commercial software (save for the unsupported, somewhat old beta we have listed in the database) but I did want to point out there are a fair number of significant changes and nice extra features over the past year.
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