Re: Previous questions/comments on Logos Now : This is nothing short of the Adobe model, and what they did with Photoshop CS6 - no longer available as a separate package. One is now on the hook to either 1.) pay for the "privilege" of beta testing for Faithlife, 2.) "rent"- not own - the program - and lose all newest features if one stops paying rent, or 3.) pay for the software over and over - not just twice.
To quote one well-know former Logos employee who still makes his living supporting Logos - "Personally, I think it stinks that Logos is now charging more money for more features after just upgrading. But, hey what can you do? And if you read the fine print, once you stop the subscription, you lose the new features" He goes on to note that no one knows what the implications are for Logos 7, either." Clearly he is very dissatisfied with this event.
The individuals who believe that this is great or they are getting a good deal need to consider these points, ignore the Faithlife spin, and to quote one famous icon, "stop drinking the Kool-Aid". At $8.99/month, less free month, its almost $100/year - certainly not trivial for me - and after a two year cycle, do I get any credit against 7, does 7 contain these features, etc. - and one keeps on paying as they move towards version 8 - if they don't follow the Adobe model. It's simply another scheme to finance their development costs (and obviously increasing overhead subsequent to the sale/acquisition) and create a permanent, known base income stream. This does not even factor in the complications created by greatly increasing the complexity of user configurations in release that Logos must/should support. I don't believe with the information now in hand that this offering is good for the consumer, and I am not certain that in the long view it is good for Logos/Faithlife, either.
