On Jun 1, 2013, at 4:48 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically Adobe has discontinued selling the Creative Suite > (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) as boxed software. Instead > they are renting it to us in bundles, like cable TV channel packages. > So in theory you can get a lot of software for less money per month > than you used to pay for the entire Creative Suite plus upgrades every > 1.5 years. That's great for professional graphic artists working for a > Fortune 500 firm. Until the accountants tell them they're not allowed it as it comes under operational expenditure instead of the yearly capital budget :D > But for free-lance or amateur photographers who just want Photoshop > for as little moola as possible, and expect to buy it like a book that > you keep forever, this move amounts to $20/month to Adobe for the rest > of your creative life. Because when you stop paying, the software > stops working. Your Adobe proprietary files become unreadable. I am still highly pissed off at Adobe for shutting down the old Macromedia activation servers. I have a copy of the 2004 MX Studio bundle which I can't even install anymore. I think that was about $1,000 worth of software which I would still find very useful if I could install it. This is why I'm now extremely hesitant to buy any product that relies on a web service to install or use. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
