[Framers] Final note about Adobe Licensing

[Alan Litchfield]

I don't think the issue in this conversation is about Adobe abandoning 
FM, but that the corporate model Adobe chooses to use has effectively 
driven a lot of us old timers out the door, into the arms of its 
competitors. Yes, there have been a bunch of new features and added 
support for functions that required external plug-in support previously, 
but the interface is actually quite hard for me to navigate now, 
especially now that so many keyboard commands have disappeared or changed.

For me, my last favourite version was 7.2 on the Mac (which I still have 
running by the way, on a G5 tower). Sure it lacked all the fancy 
mod-cons of later versions but I could run that application for months 
at a time (without shutting down the computer or program) without issue. 
Can't say the same for the current version, I'm afraid. And as I said 
earlier, part of the reason was being locked out of the application due 
to licensing problems.

Version 5.5.2 on Linux was fun while it lasted. Of course, one does miss 
the hominess of Frame Corp, but that was a long time ago now.

Alan

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Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140

On 27/06/18 13:42, ideaslists at ideastraining.com wrote:
> I've been hearing rumors of Adobe's abandonment of Frame for years, if not
> decades. The timing of these rumors is almost as regular as an atomic
> clock...
> 
> Abandonment hasn't happened yet. Oddly, I find the rumors tend to peak
> before Adobe announces a new version. This list, or any public list, is not
> a good way to make a decision about FrameMaker. Those that know can't say;
> those that say usually don't know.
> 
> David Creamer
> IDEAS Training
> ______________________
> All of these posts regarding Adobe's poor support/abandonment of FM are one
> of the reasons why my company decided to focus on another tool and migrate
> away from FM.  All of the technical publications staff (including me) are
> now using Madcap Flare and we have just completed a 2 year migration of all
> FM documents into Flare.   It was a bit sad to say goodbye to FM, but the
> handwriting was on the wall.
> 
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