OT: How long is Lifetime?

[admin]

I'm curious: What's is your longest standing lifetime license for any software?

FYI, XYplorer user #1 bought the Lifetime License on 19.April.2000 for USD 25.00 and is still using it today with the current version without any additional payment ever. That's almost 12 years.

[ogroeger]

Probably Powerarchiver (March 2001).

[prino]

My WinRAR key dates from March 2004, and Vern Buerg's List Enhanced from May 2002, a freebie for helping him to isolate a bug in the normal version of LIST

[admin]

So few answers? You don't have any lifetime licenses apart from XY?

[Minimax]

So few answers? You don't have any lifetime licenses apart from XY?

Ok Ok. I have been using Outpost Security Suite since 2006. Gets better and better with age just like red wine whisky.

[serendipity]

So few answers? You don't have any lifetime licenses apart from XY?

In fact I don't have licences to any other softwares at all.
Most of the popular ones are offered by my university, so never had to buy one. Apparently, the university's download site doesn't list any file managers at all. With equal number of PCs and MACs around in universities its very hard to sell file managers, unless there is a really good cross-platform file manager.

[LittleBiG]

True Launch Bar - from 2004.
USB Safely Remove - from 2009.

[ogroeger]

I thought you were only interested in the longest.
Well, two more:
-TruelaunchBar 2004
-Ultraedit, updated to the lifetime license in 2005

[TheQwerty]

The oldest one which comes to mind and that I still use regularly is TextPad (March 22, 2007) followed soon after by XY (July 9, 2007). 2007 coincides with my first real job after college which makes some sense.

Prior to that I was in school and admittedly pirated most of the software that I was using.
Though the majority of software I was using back then were games and a few titles from big publishers where I only used a small fraction of the features in some very powerful tools; not that it's any more excusable.

[prino]

Another one, though not yet very old (2009), Vista, (the real one ), by Tom Brennan! USD 30, but it beats the crap out commercial products that cost magnitudes more.

[eil]

for me it would be WinRAR(2003). yet, though it's free, i'll mention Opera(2004) = i used those ever after i found them.

[Filehero]

So few answers? You don't have any lifetime licenses apart from XY?

I'm not shure, maybe my IdoswinPro-license was lifetime. But he product has been abandoned last year or so.

Before someone asks: I had been using it for many years, and though I'd even purchased two licenses, it was a cheap and worthwhile buy nonetheless!


Cheers,
Filehero

[Exolon]

Hi,

WinImage since 1993. Last line in the readme was 'If you find WinImage useful, give it to your friends and upload it to your BBS' :-)

PowerIso since 2004.

JTL Ultimate Paint since 2001 I think, but don't nail me on this year ;-)

Regards
Exo

[aurumdigitus]

Blowing the dust off the external hard drive used for archival storage ...

Oldest software that involved money and still in use would be Mousetool (back when it was new and shareware). Receipt dated June, 1999.

[jjk]

Total Commander (WinCommander) since 10 february 1999 (as soon as I could pay by Internet)