Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
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This is insane, and should be a clear wake up call for people previously apathetic about software freedom. When RMS talks about unethical software, this is the kind of things he means.
Seeing things like this make me so appreciative and grateful for GIMP and other free-as-in-speech tools (and to myself for having learned how to use them). Might be a good time to throw them a few bucks.
Without things like licenses that force users to pay more money to Adobe regardless of whether the users are actually running the latest version, Adobe can't make enough money to finance changes to their user agreements.
Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that!
Think of Adobe's lawyers' children!
This has nothing to do with capitalism, but with copyright.
For a very high-class replacement of Adobe products, I would recommend Affinity suite of products - they are a buy once, use forever kind. And Affinity Designer (replacement for Illustrator) is incredibly good - even better than Illustrator in a lot of areas. And price of Designer is less than 2 months of Illustrator fees. Beat that!
The simple fact that working with groups is practically unusable in Designer is a major deal breaker for me. There have been feature requests in Affinity's forums for years to fix that which Affinity has ignored.
For example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/1640-ad-is...
Are these users still paying a monthly fee? Is Adobe trying to force them to upgrade? Does the software license contain a provision about older versions expiring? If it does, why doesn't Adobe disable the licenses remotely, instead of threatening to sue? (Which is bizarre.) Do users have a reason for not upgrading? Does Adobe CC not auto-update? If not, why not, since isn't that a benefit of a "cloud" subscription? Etc etc.
It's really not that hard to do.