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<pre wrap="">>> 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.
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Mike Wickham<br>
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<i>Sent from my supercharged custom computer with three 24"
monitors. It beats the crap out of anybody's piddly smartphone.</i></div>
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