Hey everyone,
Sorry if my question sounds dumb, but it's not clear whether Directory Opus is free or not. Some informatics website notes it as free, but I think I figured that after installation, we only have a 60 days test period. After that, we must pay for a license.
Am I right?
When Directory Opus is installed a Stock Program Certificate is automatically installed.
This “pseudo” certificate lets you run Directory Opus for 60 days - for free.
Have a look here:
gpsoft.com.au/DScripts/download.asp
And here:
gpsoft.com.au/order_intro.html
As a point of clarity (and I could be wrong)... but I thought I recalled a base installation of Opus with the stock certificate being good for 30 days... with a free evaluation licence which you can request from GPSoft then providing the 60 day functionality...
Anyhow - Opus has been worth it's purchase price many times over to me for years now just from the operational/productivity perspective...
Yes, Steje is right, this screenshot comes from the DOpus help file:
It would be interesting to know the origins of this notion:
I often see the "free download" rubric. This is not, of course, the same thing as free to use.
What is this "informatics website" we're talking about?
Ok, thank you all for these answers.
[quote="michaelkenward"]It would be interesting to know the origins of this notion:
I often see the "free download" rubric. This is not, of course, the same thing as free to use.[/quote]
Yes you're right, I mistaken the term.
Just type "Directory Opus" on Google 
eg, this one or this one (french).
The web pages titles are often tagged with "Free download", but the description of the product indicates that there is a time limitation.
But michaelkenward is right, it is not indicated as "totally free".
fileforum.betanews put "Free Download and Reviews" in the page title of every page on their site (more or less). Just means the download itself is free. Nowhere else on there does it say "free" (except the link on the side to unrelated freeware apps), and at the top it says "Shareware; $53.00".
(That said, I don't think that's the correct price these days. Maybe it was put there when the exchange rate with Australia was more favourable to Americans? The page also doesn't include Windows 7 at the top, so it's not totally up to date.)
Of course, when in doubt check the site for the people who make/sell the program rather than sites which collect links/information about programs, but IMO the fileforum.betanews site seems fine (other than the out-of-date price/exchange rate).