There are lots of expensive software products that I may have an occasional need for but not enough to justify purchasing a license. For example : - Microsoft

There are lots of expensive software products that I may have an occasional need for but not enough to justify purchasing a license. For example : - Microsoft Office - Various (possibly obsolete) versions of Windows - Non-Express versions of Visual Studio - Matlab and Toolkits - Mathematica - Photoshop - SolidWorks One reason for this is that I tend to do a lot of short-term freelancing projects, some of which may require access to these products. Monthly licensing for products like these could be very useful, either locally or in some cases via a remote VM. Unfortunately only the IP owners could make this happen and they don't seem to have much interest in that type of business model.