Re: The Creative Gouge
Re: The Creative Gouge
- Subject: Re: The Creative Gouge
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 05:37:15 -0700
On May 8, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Iliah Borg <email@hidden> wrote:
> If you have an annual membership, you'll be asked to connect to the web to validate your software licenses every 30 days. However, you'll be able to use products for 180 days even if you're offline.
For this version.
But what about the next? And if you don't like the new version for any reason, do you have to sever your Internet connection for the next six months to prevent being forced to upgrade -- and what do you do after those six months are up?
And what if Adobe should go bankrupt, or just have trouble paying their own Internet hosting bills? Are you confident that they're too big to fail and thus will get a government bailout? What if *you* have trouble with *your* Internet connection?
The Creative Cloud is a great *OPTION* for a service, especially casual users. But for professionals, you're now trusting Adobe to never do anything you don't like for as long as you want to access your files.
Remember the bad old days when you couldn't use third-party inks (and, in some cases, papers) in your printers, and the manufacturers fought tooth and nail to keep it that way? Remember the analogies with cars that only worked with the manufacturer's brand of gasoline?
This is worse. Much worse -- for the simple reason that Adobe can now change anything out from underneath you for any reason, including malice and incompetence or a simple difference of opinion, and you have no recourse whatsoever but to go out of business.
Cheers,
b&
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