I had meant to post this earlier, but better late than never. Here's an excerpt (with minor edits) of the reply I got from Hazem Sayed on my questions about MCL's new pricing scheme:


[Regarding] your question, there will be an upgrade path to the MCL version running native on OS X, however as we are not yet in a position to fix its release date (in part due to coordination with Apple technical resources), I cannot be more specific about the cost.


You can expect however that the cost will be fair and taking into consideration the time difference between now and the release of the OS X native version (e.g. if you purchased MCL 4.3.1 today and MCL 4.4 was released tomorrow you would not be paying more than whatever price difference between them).


Hazem adds: "We both appreciate and need the help of all MCL users in spreading the word about the new price for MCL. Obviously we are doing it to make it available to more people, but we need many such people for this to be a good decision in the long run."

So there you have it. I'm still planning to purchase MCL 4.3.1 at the $95 USD price as soon as I can afford it and justify it to myself. I have some travel coming up that I'm trying to budget for. But so far, there's not been a day gone by I don't think of plunking down the Visa and ordering up some fresh Lispy goodness from the folks at Digitool.