alt Hacker NewsDone. I was feeling bad for saying how often I used blender without paying a cent not 20 seconds earlier in this very thread. Then I saw your message.
The fact that Apple Pay is an option made it take only another 20 seconds for me to throw some money at a great project.
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One of my adopted "kids" I taught years ago picked this up at 17. He is 26, now. He "borrowed" the software to start (fair enough; it was a friend's license and not used at the same time), and didn't pay for a copy of Blender until he had a career path in mind and used Blender regularly.
A monthly thing makes no sense; just letting hobbyists dabble until they are in a place to pay used to be a lot more normal. They ought to make the entry for paying a bit less heartburn-inducing, though.
Thanks for the Apple pay hint. That was just what I needed to get me over the mental threshold. It's been literally two clicks.