> On Jul 18, 2023, at 9:08 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am 18.07.23 um 17:02 schrieb Bill: > >> I'd like a Maserati, but I can't afford it. Does this give me the right >> to steal one? > > Certainly not. But after you've legally bought one and paid the full > price, they won't take it away from you if you don't keep paying year > after year. Besides, an acquaintance of mine had one. That thing spent > more time at the garage than on the road. > > I have paid for Lightroom since their early days and when they pulled > the plug on LR6 I've changed to ON1. Although they also lure me into > buying yearly upgrades I don't have to if I don't want to and can still > go on using it. > > That said, I'm happier with ON1, the noise filter runs circles around LR > and my photos look better. > > Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. I don't borrow money to buy things and I > prefer to own the things I buy. So, I'm still buying CDs instead of > streaming. > > Ralf
You never own software. You license it. Software always remains the property of the originator/vendor who produces it. Read the End User License Agreement included with every piece of software you ever use… It's much like a book or a photograph: You can own the physical book or photograph, but the rights to the words/image contained are always the property of the writer/photographer/publisher and are not yours to be utilized commercially for profit unless you pay them for a license to do so. LR Classic's latest "AI" noise filter is pretty darn good: Finished: https://flic.kr/p/2ovSe27 After - Before comparison crops: https://flic.kr/p/2ovRaG2 … and that photo was made with the iPhone 11 Pro set to ISO 250, a ridiculously high ISO setting for a chintzy little sensor like a phone camera. I didn't buy any of the Adobe Cloud storage explicitly, although my $10/mo subscription comes with 20G as a default. I don't use it. My $10/mo subscription also comes with Photoshop as well as a few other apps that I have neither installed nor used. You only need to use what you want to use, that's all. Frankly, at $120 per year for the subscription, it's a bargain compared to paying about $500 for Photoshop, about $100 or Lightroom, and then paying for updates to both every 10-18 months. The transition from perpetual license to subscription licensing was not, as some people opine, to restrict some of the rampant software theft, although it does have that as a side effect. The transition services another essential need: with the perpetual license financial scheme, a company's income goes through a complex cycle of highs and lows depending on when updates for the major software products are to be released. This can create havoc with a development schedule as, when finances are low, you either have to borrow money or let go of personnel to keep the business afloat, and often if you lay off temporarily excess personnel, you can't get all of it back when the curve goes up. With a subscription license model, you build a user audience at a lower total price/profit level per user, but you have a consistent monthly income to work with from your installed user base, permitting better planning and more incremental development with a consistent personnel staff over time. It makes sense as a business model for a company like Adobe (and others who have gone to the subscription licensing model). I tried ON1 when I was looking for an alternative to LR (to stay away from the subscription…) and it managed to thoroughly hork up my image files and rendering work rather badly. LR v6.15 perpetual license had, by the introduction of MacOS Catalina, so many broken parts I had to do something. That was three-four major macOS revisions ago, and there have been enough high-value improvements to the macOS revisions (even on my old Mac minis) that I'd rather update the OS and deal with what doesn't work in the apps. LR Classic has worked well, if not perfectly (nothing is ever "perfect"), and updates have been frequent and cost-free beyond the low monthly tithe due. The closest thing I've found to a consistent and quality replacement for Lightroom (Classic) is/was Apple's Photos app combined with Gentlemen Coders' RAW Power. I use that combo about half the time nowadays: for a low cost, RAW Power is available for and runs well on all of my computers/devices, and Photos is regularly updated, improved with each iteration of the OS as well. But there are still things that Lightroom Classic does easily that I haven't found in any other package (like easily configurable, maintainable printing templates) with the same degree of ease and quality. And at $10/month, the cost is trivial, even without using all the bits I don't use. ;) G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
