> "You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
This is insane, and should be a clear wake up call for people previously apathetic about software freedom. When RMS talks about unethical software, this is the kind of things he means.
Seeing things like this make me so appreciative and grateful for GIMP and other free-as-in-speech tools (and to myself for having learned how to use them). Might be a good time to throw them a few bucks.
Without things like licenses that force users to pay more money to Adobe regardless of whether the users are actually running the latest version, Adobe can't make enough money to finance changes to their user agreements.
Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that!
When Adobe moved Photoshop to this kind of licence, every user should have been complained and refused to upgrade. But seemingly most of them did upgrade and therefore this is the new "normal". So, good luck with that. I'm not going to fight the war of someone who charges 6000€ for a logo.
The dumbest thing about this is that Adobe's Creative Cloud manager is responsible for installing and keeping their software updated on my computer, so Adobe installed software that I'm now not allowed to use on my computer!? Adobe needs to take some responsibility. It's really not my fault that Adobe can't manage it's install base...
If they don't have your card on file, it should start warning you a month before expiration, then nag you hourly about your poor financial hygiene and, finally, revert to a degraded demo mode.
I was stunned by this revelation, but then I think back to all the other times Adobe has exhibited similar behaviour and it seems like they won't change. It's not like the CC suite is cheap either. To compare, Office 365 subscription provides so much more value for a better price.
For a very high-class replacement of Adobe products, I would recommend Affinity suite of products - they are a buy once, use forever kind. And Affinity Designer (replacement for Illustrator) is incredibly good - even better than Illustrator in a lot of areas. And price of Designer is less than 2 months of Illustrator fees. Beat that!
I think Affinity Photo is a great Photoshop alternative, but Designer is more geared to illustrators than actually designers.
The simple fact that working with groups is practically unusable in Designer is a major deal breaker for me. There have been feature requests in Affinity's forums for years to fix that which Affinity has ignored.
Adobe is stupid evil and greedy. They bought Macromedia and tried to turn an animation tool into a whole application language and it ended up being the online criminals best tool. They ran authorware and director into the ground and abandoned beloved appliations. All they want to do is milk the customer for software features everyone has owned for 20 years.
I've never used any standalone Adobe software like Photoshop, but can't you just add some firewall rules to disable the online functionality? I do this for Clip Studio to stay locked into an older version.
Are these users still paying a monthly fee? Is Adobe trying to force them to upgrade? Does the software license contain a provision about older versions expiring? If it does, why doesn't Adobe disable the licenses remotely, instead of threatening to sue? (Which is bizarre.) Do users have a reason for not upgrading? Does Adobe CC not auto-update? If not, why not, since isn't that a benefit of a "cloud" subscription? Etc etc.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 46.6 ms ] threadThis is insane, and should be a clear wake up call for people previously apathetic about software freedom. When RMS talks about unethical software, this is the kind of things he means.
Seeing things like this make me so appreciative and grateful for GIMP and other free-as-in-speech tools (and to myself for having learned how to use them). Might be a good time to throw them a few bucks.
Without things like licenses that force users to pay more money to Adobe regardless of whether the users are actually running the latest version, Adobe can't make enough money to finance changes to their user agreements.
Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that!
Think of Adobe's lawyers' children!
This has nothing to do with capitalism, but with copyright.
It's really not that hard to do.
For a very high-class replacement of Adobe products, I would recommend Affinity suite of products - they are a buy once, use forever kind. And Affinity Designer (replacement for Illustrator) is incredibly good - even better than Illustrator in a lot of areas. And price of Designer is less than 2 months of Illustrator fees. Beat that!
The simple fact that working with groups is practically unusable in Designer is a major deal breaker for me. There have been feature requests in Affinity's forums for years to fix that which Affinity has ignored.
For example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/1640-ad-is...
Are these users still paying a monthly fee? Is Adobe trying to force them to upgrade? Does the software license contain a provision about older versions expiring? If it does, why doesn't Adobe disable the licenses remotely, instead of threatening to sue? (Which is bizarre.) Do users have a reason for not upgrading? Does Adobe CC not auto-update? If not, why not, since isn't that a benefit of a "cloud" subscription? Etc etc.