OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Alan T Litchfield]

Indeed, yes.

Adobe have steadily reduced the value of their products in favour of increasing marketing expenditure (e.g. the "standardised" UI) and PR, and feature bloat in place of stability and quality software. Now, to increase value for stockholders and to shore up the bottom line, they need to gouge their customer base. It is us, the customer base, that have been filling the value void for too long.

Alan

On 23/05/2013, at 4:54 AM, <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com> <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com> wrote:

> 2013-05-22-03T16:55Z
> 
> Mike Wickham wrote,
> 
> "You know, we users ought to start billing Adobe for the hours we spend providing free customer support for them in the various forums. We undoubtedly save the company millions of dollars per year. I imagine that the billing for my posts on this listserve and the Adobe FrameMaker forums alone would be worth well more than a lifetime subscription plan to Creative Cloud."
> 
> ¡Hear!  ¡Hear!
> 
> Dave Stamm
> Information Engineer