OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Mike Wickham]

>> As for cars, leasing has been a huge business for a couple of decades. There's also a growing adoption of ride shares (pay for shared use of a car), and rentals still are thriving.
>>


Yes, but when they started leasing cars, they didn't remove the option 
to buy them! I'm not against leasing software. I'm against having my 
choice removed to own... er... license a perpetual copy that will 
continue to work without paying a monthly fee forever.

And I know I won't lose my content. I was talking about the fact that 
I've got over a decade's worth of PSD and AI files. Other programs don't 
always handle these native files so well, if at all. So moving to a 
subscription model, if I later decide to unsubscribe, I face the task of 
converting the files beforehand to something more universal, like TIF. 
Thank goodness my CS6 will still, presumably work for some time, so that 
I can continue to use my native files as is. But a lot of CC users are 
going to start out as CC users-- not as former CS users with existing 
perpetual-license software on their computers. When they unsubscribe, 
they won't have an old version to fall back on. They'll be done.

Mike Wickham

-- 
/Sent from my supercharged custom computer with three 24" monitors. It 
beats the crap out of anybody's piddly smartphone./
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