Just signed the petition and indicated the following as the reason for signing:
"It is really a matter of letting users choose, rather than aggressively force this or that option them. Clearly, many Adobe users are still using older versions because many newer versions/upgrades were mediocre, half-baked, not too promising and/or too expensive. Instead of making an effort to produce inspiring/irresistible upgrades, they want to force all to constantly pay for the same software." [nothing original. I'm sure that these points and many other valid points were already made in the different threads in so many forums] Shlomo Perets MicroType, http:// microtype.com <http://%20microtype.com> FrameMaker/Acrobat/Captivate training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants Enable and encourage user input in PDFs (viewed with Adobe Reader) Half-hour webinar (free; no fluff, no hype, no nonsense), June 5, starting 9am PDT https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/157658438 ---------- Original message ---------- At 14:54 -0700 20/5/13, Karen Robbins wrote: Adam Engst's article in TidBITs, Creative Cloud Complaints Darken Adobe's View of the Future, (<http://tidbits.com/e/13765>http://tidbits.com/e/13765) makes/shares some excellent points. If the Creative Cloud experiment succeeds, TCS/FrameMaker could be next. I see from this article that there is a petition on Change.org to try to persuade Adobe to abandon this sales model. Please go here if you feel strongly about this issue: <http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-incorporated-eliminate-the-ma ndatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130521/edf1c5fc/attachment.html>