Re: The Creative Gouge
Re: The Creative Gouge
- Subject: Re: The Creative Gouge
- From: Iliah Borg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 08:49:10 -0400
Well, Adobe is wasting my time with this; and nobody forces you to waste your time on answering. It is your choice, and you've chosen to be rude and to speak for others - see that "our time" :)
My clients insist on getting psd files to ensure readability with industry standard software. So your "no one" is inaccurate. You are using too common ways of dismissing valid concerns :)
On May 8, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Thomas Lianza wrote:
> To both of Ben and Illiah,
>
> No one forces you to use Adobe products, if you don't like it use the Gimp
> or whatever software you want to, but don't waste our time whining about
> something you have no control over. Many of us have found the program
> completely agreeable. It saves a lot of hassles and it works well.
>
> Good luck to you.
>
> On 5/8/13 8:37 AM, "Ben Goren" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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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Best regards,
Iliah Borg
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