OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Alison Craig]

It's not just freelancers that will be affected. Until my company was recently purchased by a larger organization, I had always worked for small to medium-sized businesses as the sole writer. Trying to get a budget for tools could be like pulling teeth. I somehow doubt most of my former employers would ever go for the subscription model.

Which means for many sole writers, it will be back to using Word!

Alison


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:57 AM
To: Steve Rickaby; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

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]
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