OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Writer]

I was wondering when someone was going to bring this up. I share your sentiments/fears exactly, Steve.

Nadine


----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk>
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:37:59 PM
> Subject: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only
> 
> I have just heard a rumor that the CS Suite is going to available in future only 
> on an SaaS basis, by subscription. TCS/FrameMaker could follow?
> 
> I do wonder whether the accountants that run large corporates like Adobe 
> understand how important their software is to the countless thousands of 
> freelances who have to scrape every last penny to buy it - but at least then 
> they own something, not vapor that goes phut as soon as you stop paying for it.
> 
> For the last two decades FrameMaker, Illustrator, Acrobat and Dreamweaver have 
> been the rocks underpinning what I do. I'm far less sure about the future, 
> though.
> 
> -- 
> Steve [somewhat aghast]