On 7/18/2023 8:11 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 18.07.23 um 15:07 schrieb Bill:
Subscription services seem to be the way of the future.
Either that or you'll only get updates for a year. Still leaves you with
the option of continuing with the older version.
Then again, in many cases there is a new version every year that
includes new or improved functions and you'll upgrade anyhow.
What I hate are schemes like Adobe's where you lose all use of the
software if you don't keep on paying. ("Buy once, pay forever.")
I see your point, but prior to the subscription model, Photoshop was the
most pirated software of any, with something like 80% or more of
Photoshop installations being pirated.
Adobe had to do something. They have shareholders to answer to.
I've read the narratives that "I can't afford Photoshop, it's too
expensive, so they aren't losing money by having me steal it since I
wouldn't have bought it anyway", and I disagree with them.
Photoshop/Lightroom may be nothing more than an electronic download, but
there is still an infrastructure behind it.
I'd like a Maserati, but I can't afford it. Does this give me the right
to steal one?
Software is a consumer product, jut like any other consumer product The
vendor makes a product, they put a price on it and the consumer has the
right to buy it or not. They shouldn't have the option to steal it
because they think it's too expensive.
I don't agree with the decisions of automakers to put heated seats on a
subscription model, or having to pay by the month to get that extra
hundred or so horsepower out of your car, but what this means is that I
won't be buying a BMW or Mercedes Benz any time soon, not that I will
steal one of those cars.
If Photoshop was too expensive, find a cheaper alternative, don't just
steal it and make up an excuse for your dishonesty.
I subscribe to Disney+. If I don't pay my subscription fee, I don't have
a right to complain when they cut off my service.
The same with my monthly internet, electric, gas or phone bills. I
either pay them monthly or I sit in a dark, cold and quiet house (come
to think of it, that's what I go on vacation to do....).
What I don't get to do is tap into my neighbour's gas line, power
utility and steal their WiFi.
My internet service is nothing more than electrons or light pulses in
wires, but I still have to pay by the month to support the
infrastructure that makes getting those signals to me.
I don't see Adobe's subscription model as anything more than hopefully
stopping piracy and theft of their product, something they have a duty
to their shareholders to and to support the infrastructure behind the
program and allow the company to have the funds to continue to develop
their software.
As an aside, if you stop paying your Photoshop/Lightroom subscription,
Photoshop will stop working, but Lightroom will go into read only mode
and you have a year to clean up any Cloud storage you are using before
they wipe your files, so it isn't like anyone is being held for ransom.
Photoshop/Lightroom is priced in such a way that it pretty much evens
out if one was following the former software upgrade path and actually
buying in rather than downloading a crack key.
bill
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