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Adobe's decision to murder boxed software and punt the Creative Suite exclusively into the cloud didn't catch channel partners unaware - but it may just unsettle their arty clients. So say folk in Adobe's UK partner base who are digesting the "bold" move confirmed earlier this week that will see the Creative Suite apps …

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  1. TonyJ

    Really...

    "This is an easier way of helping us manage customers' licensing".

    You mean

    "This is an easier way of helping us to lock customers into perpetual licensing".

    There you go. Fixed if for you.

    1. James 51
      Pirate

      Re: Really...

      and of course next year it could jump to £100 a month (or $100 if you're in the US, this is Adobe after all).

      1. Robert Helpmann??
        Childcatcher

        Re: Really...

        I can somewhat understand why some products cost different amounts in different countries, but where in the world does the greater than 50% mark up come from in the price of a piece of software that is downloaded and not shipped? Wait... let me guess: the UK gets the "virtual hardcover" edition while we in the US have to make do with the paperback version.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Really...

      "I grew up in poor communities that were preyed-upon by the "Rent to Own" scam. Congrats to @adobe for besting it with "Rent to Never Own"...

      That's a pretty powerful sentiment that hit home to me. I wonder if this push to the Cloud, will lead to more creativity using the existing suites with users merely extending the existing lifespans, rather than dealing with the hassles and unknowns that go with the new cloudy model?

      For instance how can the user have any assurance about future DRM? Especially if users net connections are down or Adobe turns off a key feature or ups the pricing on another and holds the user to ransom? As users, we sure are about to cede a lot of control here. That's what the above statement says to me. That loss of control can mean the product could be disabled at short notice, meaning illustrators or editors etc, may not be able to do their work, and at short notice that could lead to catastrophic results for some...

      I also predict the product updater will fail from time to time and disavow a small but still significant number of users. After all, this happens all the time with updaters in general, but its not sexy news and so isn't widely reported...

  2. James 51
    Thumb Down

    Four sprung duck technique

    I remember reading a story about apple updating a video editor. They nerfed a lot of the advanced functionality and there was a big fuss made about that. If Adobe did something similar you could hold on to your old version and wait them out. Once it all goes to the cloud though, you're entirely at their mercy. Plus if they go belly up you need something new pronto or if god forbid you're having problems with the internet, you can't do any work.

    1. Rob
      Go

      Re: Four sprung duck technique

      From what I've read the internet connection will only be required to 'phone home' to check licensing, even though they are saying it's moving to the cloud in reality, from what I can tell so far, is that you still download and install the software to your machine it's just managed and licensed through a cloud system. It's a bid to up revenues, create more lock-in and add more barriers to defeat piracy.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Four sprung duck technique

        Yes, I don't quite understand the deal. Surely 'The Cloud' is just Adobe trying to avoid the the term DRM?

        1. Rob

          Re: Four sprung duck technique

          DRM indeed, this really all boils down to a marketing exercise so that Adobe can change it's pricing/licensing model. I even expect as others have mentioned that the 'phone home' task will still be performed every 30 days with another 30 days grace if no net connection is available as it is now. The marketing surrounding this though is setting the expectations for the customer, smaller more manageable reoccurring cost to use but you must make sure you connect to the net a bare minimum of every 60 days seems to be the general gist of their campaign.

          It might be in part due to the fact that PS is quite widely pirated that Adobe have thought that by increasing revenue they can offset the cost of the Piracy whilst still sticking with the same DRM model. And as every SMB will state the original suite licensing cost was largely prohibitive as it was an upfront cost which also put people off the upgrade cycle even with the previous suite discounts available (understandably so).

          By the way I'm not trying to defend Adobe's move as I will more than likely stick with my licensed copy of CS6 for a number of years to come, I think it's got enough for my needs that even when they withdraw support it will still be useful to me but then this is the sort of attitude Adobe is trying to defeat.

          This area of software definitely needs some serious competition and no GIMP isn't serious competition.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Four sprung duck technique

        "From what I've read the internet connection will only be required to 'phone home' to check licensing, even though they are saying it's moving to the cloud in reality"...

        ...OK so it will be similar to DRM and single-player gaming then? What happens on a morning when the net connection is down, but an inescapable deadline is looming? If the suite is already running from yesterday, maybe there's no issue. But if you have to launch the suite anew or a reboot happened, what then?

        There's a ton of building work and new utility wiring going on in my area in recent months. The net is going down every other morning. I can see this being a PITA if Adobe don't account for downtime.... I have many friends who are independent editors, illustrators, animators etc who would could lose some serious business. This isn't a single-player gaming and needs to be well thought out with all contingencies put in place!!

        1. myarse
          Angel

          Re: Four sprung duck technique

          Actually the way CS handles this isn't too bad. It phones home once a month, if it can't get through it'll tell you on launch but gives you another month to sort it out.

          I'm not in favour of this, as like most users me and the places I work for tend to skip, but it's not the worst implementation of DRM about.

          Wierd thing, Photoshop must be the most pirated peice of software on the planet, and it's been phoning home for yonks so DRM hasn't worked. Must be about charging us more then.

        2. Fibbles

          Re: Four sprung duck technique

          "...OK so it will be similar to DRM and single-player gaming then? What happens on a morning when the net connection is down, but an inescapable deadline is looming? If the suite is already running from yesterday, maybe there's no issue. But if you have to launch the suite anew or a reboot happened, what then?"

          CC software will run normally for 30 days in between check-ins with Adobe's licensing server and will run for another 30 in 'Trial' mode after that.

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Four sprung duck technique

            "CC software will run normally for 30 days in between check-ins with Adobe's licensing server and will run for another 30 in 'Trial' mode after that."

            Thanks for clarifying. At the risk of being obvious I note the 30-day window is the state-of-play today and by no means guaranteed for the future. Adobe needs people to accept the move and are playing friendly now. But if they decide to tackle piracy head-on as someone else mentioned, they could feasibly increase the phone home frequency to something considerably less accommodating ....

      3. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Four sprung duck technique

        The question that needs answering is how often does it need to 'phone home' ? I spend up to a week at a time on location taking photos and editing in the field ready to deliver to clients when I return to an internet connection. It looks like I'm stuck with what I presently have - CS5 as I can't risk being left unable to work because of a lack of an internet connection.

      4. Robert Helpmann??
        Childcatcher

        Re: Four sprung duck technique

        ...the internet connection will only be required to 'phone home' to check licensing...

        Their previous products did this on install and when, I think, pulling updates. Did this approach up revenues to the extent that doing it a lot more is going to improve them? More likely it they drive away their less profitable users - not those that were pirating the software, but those who would skip versions. The likely outcome is going to be a shrinking user base with very little change in profits in the short term. I would guess that those "lower-value" customers will eventually be picked up by a competitor who will surpass Adobe's product line. Just give it a few years.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Unhappy

      Re: Four sprung duck technique

      The amusing thing about the Final Cut Pro debacle is that Adobe jumped in and offered a 50% discount on CS suite to all Final Cut users. I was one of the poor sods who took them up on the deal!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Skipping a version

    Quote

    "Most clients buy Creative Suite and skip a generation to save costs. Now that they can't do that it may well turn off some people," said one source at an accredited Adobe reseller

    Wrong. It will turn off a whole raft of customers. There has been a virtual deluge of condemnation on a number of the Amateur Photographer forums. These are the 'cheapskates' who typically skip a version. Why?

    Possibly because they have to fund this out of their own pockets and not offset it against business costs.

    I'm one of them.

    Well Adobe, UP YOURS.

    I will never spend another ££££ on your products. Who cares if the latest Raw software does not support my new camera or lens. There are a good few other tools I can use.

    Photoshop CS is history as far as I'm concerned.

    Ok, so Lightroom and Elements are currently not going into a subscription model and I really hope they don't if you value what is left of your customer base at all but for me,

    I am an ex Adobe Customer.

    1. Peter 48
      Stop

      Re: Skipping a version

      so you were happy to pay about £660 upfront and £350 for each upgrade of photoshop for a total of about £1350 over 5 years but think paying £1050 (5x12x£17) over the same period is too expensive? You might want to work on your math. There are plenty of other reasons to baulk against the cloud route, but in this case price isn't one of them. As a small business it is a damn site easier to budget for £17 / £48 a month than find large chunks yearly or biannually.

      1. jason 7
        Meh

        Re: Skipping a version

        A lot of people didn't/don't work that way with CS or Adobe products.

        If you paid in full for CS2 you wouldn't think of moving till at least CS4 or some major issue hit home like 64bit compatibility etc. Since CS2/3 Photoshop hasn't really had any major must have features other than UI refreshes. It's like MS Office, you can get by in most cases with any version from the past 8 years (further with Office).

        My other half went from CS2 to CS5. The only thing she upgraded inbetween was Dreamweaver (CS4 with no updates and flakey 64bit support, thanks for that Adobe).

        She bought Photoshop CS6 only recently due to Adobe's cutting back on the number of versions you can skip to just two before you lose upgrade rights.

        Though it may have been a waste of money....

        She is looking for long term alternatives now though. But Gimp isn't one of them.

      2. pj3090

        Re: Skipping a version

        Hmm. Way back, I paid $625 for Photoshop, and subsequent upgrades have been $199. Since I usually skip versions, that's $824 for about four to five years (one original + one upgrade), or $1023 for about six years (one original + two upgrades). At $20/month, the subscription gets me less than 3.5 years for $824 and just over four years for $1023. So no, it's definitely not a better deal.

        And to make it worse, I have to keep renting the software indefinitely into the future just to open my own files, even if I stop using Photoshop in the future. With the perpetual license model I can just keep my lady version of the software around of I need to go back and open an old file.

      3. lusnrt
        Unhappy

        Re: Skipping a version

        No, initial purchase price was sunk cost years ago (which we don't get back after changing to a subscription). After that it is approx £160 for each upgrade of the basic Photoshop, which when skipping a version is £160/36 = £4.44/month - a lot less than £17.58 on subscription!

      4. User McUser
        FAIL

        @Peter 48 Re: Skipping a version

        The difference is that once I buy the new version I STOP sending them money AND I still get to use the software. With a subscription model I'm left with nothing at the end of it.

        And suppose I'm NOT one of those people who upgrade to every new version? A copy of CS5 will still work in another year and costs me exactly nothing beyond the amount I already paid. What benefit does a subscription give me here?

        Why not sell the latest version normally and then offer a maintenance agreement/plan and provide me with the latest/greatest and what-not so long as I pay the maintenance fee? That way when I stop paying I get to keep whatever version I currently have rather than it evaporating into the æther.

      5. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Skipping a version

        @Peter 48

        Not very bright are you. Who says we skip just one version. A lot of small businesses skip 2 or 3. The savings is huge. Not to mention people used to sell old Adobe licenses out to recoupe some of the massive cost of this so called 'industry standard'of all things digital imagery.

        1. Rob Moir
          FAIL

          Re: Skipping a version

          @anonymous coward

          In Peter48's defence he was replying to someone who had specifically mentioned skipping every other version.

          Something I personally would have checked for before racing to call him not very bright, because y'know, now you don't look very bright.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Skipping a version

      "Ok, so Lightroom and Elements are currently not going into a subscription model and I really hope they don't if you value what is left of your customer base at all but for me,"

      Good. I am a lightroom user, out of my own pocket too, because I thought Photoshop/CS was too bloody pricey even when you could skip a generation. I felt that I probably shouldn't pirate it either, though now I am regretting that decision. I really hope that CS gets pirated like crazy after this.. this.. lamentable dickmove.

      Grr.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Another way cloud computing can **** a business up ..

    My organisation recently had experience of a department which managed to "go rogue" and sign up to a SaaS application for a specific business need. No one in IT knew about it, until I got in on the project (because they had questions they couldn't answer.

    Now they are lumbered with an app with the data hosted outside the company (so no ownership), plus being committed to whatever upgrades, improvements and bugs get pushed out with no notice whatsoever. These clowns don't even have a test environment.

    My first IT job was in 1986, for a big (20,000 + employees) company. Officially they had a lockdown on IT purchases, as they wanted to develop a standard approach. However too many managers saw the shiny of Lotus, and before you knew it every department was *renting* a PC from their stationary budget to avoid it hitting the CapEx ban.

  5. Mike Bell
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    Creative Suite has been on 'cloud' for ages

    I've never bought 'boxed' Adobe software. They've offered the ability to download and pay for software online for a very long time, and that's what I've done on quite a few occasions.

    By slipping in the word 'cloud' they're really just offering a different way to pay, and removing the option for their customers to purchase new versions of the software outright.

    There's no reason at all why they couldn't continue to offer outright purchases for new software, but they think they're in such a strong position that sheeple will put up with paying in perpetuity.

    1. Piro Silver badge

      Re: Creative Suite has been on 'cloud' for ages

      "There's no reason at all why they couldn't continue to offer outright purchases for new software"

      I thought that's exactly what the announcement was about.

      1. Mike Bell

        Re: Creative Suite has been on 'cloud' for ages

        @Piro

        ...There's no reason at all why they couldn't continue to offer outright purchases for new software.

        "I thought that's exactly what the announcement was about."

        Did I miss something? Adobe's announcement was exactly not about that. The announcement was that customers would not, in future, be able to purchase new versions of their software outright - rental is to be the only option. And if you buy it now while you can, you won't be getting any newer version or features that way. Just bug fixes.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Boxed software

    Adobe have had a download model in place for ages. All this "doing away with boxed software" and "offering faster updates" is pure BS.

    It's all about customer lock in and not tieing themselves to an update schedule. At the moment they have to pull something out of the hat every 18 months to cause people to want to upgrade. Tie people in via rental and they no longer have to worry about this.

    They also don't have to worry about the people who refuse to upgrade. They'll now be tied in.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Why aren't these partners/resellers against this?

    Surely they've just lost a revenue stream as everyone who wants CC would be going direct to Adobe?

    1. Alan 6

      Re: Why aren't these partners/resellers against this?

      Many resellers will lose out, but some provide a fulll management service for their customers, so they will privide servers, PCs, warranty support and software licencing etc

  8. Oliver 4
    Meh

    Over a barrel

    We usually skip a generation of one of the smaller packages, so yeah it isn't what we would choose to do, but now there isn't a choice - what is the alternative?

    Win for adobe + less than chuffed customers.

    Definitely need a decent competitor in this space.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Over a barrel

      There's always Corel...

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Over a barrel

      A good question - what are the alternatives, not in terms of what they are now, but given enough support.

      I guess there would be thousands of pissed-off ex-Adobe customers willing to pay £100+ for something that is 3/4 of Photoshop. That could pay a decent programmer or two's wages for a year to fix a top ten list of issues with an alternative package, say GIMP.

      Oh and before there are down-votes due to GIMP's user interface being crap, remember Photoshop is a pretty non-intuitive packages as well, its just you have already learned that.

      1. cosymart
        Unhappy

        Re: Over a barrel

        The problem with GIMP is that it doesn't have a usable user interface :-)

        1. PhilBuk
          Thumb Down

          Re: Over a barrel

          And a stupid name.

          Phil.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Skip Several Versions

    There must a huge percentage of Photoshop users that can skip upgrades for years without causing any major pain. Adobe are encouraging people to do just that. I'd be curious what % they think will stay put on current version. On the other hand I know large companies that just sign off any request for latest software version as soon as the the developer says "we need it" without any questions asked, but then I find large companies can be incredibly wasteful.

    I've tried to replace Photoshop with GIMP, I found it hard work and without basics like layer groups\sets [mocked up here http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/layer-folders.html] I've always returned back to photoshop. This subscription move will only give me more incentive to try harder with GIMP.

  10. Chris Holt
    Facepalm

    RTFFAQ

    The Adobe FAQ covers a lot of this...come on people this isn't the daily mail!

    [adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/faq.html]

    Q Do I need ongoing Internet access to use my Creative Cloud desktop applications?

    A No. Your Creative Cloud desktop applications (such as Photoshop and Illustrator) are installed directly on your computer, so you won't need an ongoing Internet connection to use them on a daily basis.

    You will need to be online when you install and license your software. 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.

    Q As a Creative Cloud member, am I required to install an upgrade to a desktop application when it becomes available?

    A No. You are not required to install any new version of the desktop applications available in Creative Cloud. You can continue using your current version of the product as long as you have an active membership. You have flexibility on when you install a new release to take advantage of new product features, if you choose to do so.

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    In a way I find myself OK about it

    I use all the packages in Adobe cloud. I video edit, create graphics, design websites, edit audio, produce content for video games and so on. Before they had a monthly plan I used to crap myself at the thought of the amount of money I had to outlay (It is just myself and not a company paying) for the assorted packages.

    Considering how much I earn from using Adobe Cloud vs How much I spend on sandwiches each month (£2.10 x 24 = £50.40) I know that I would gladly trade a sandwich for access to all the software I need all day.

    I started making my own sandwiches and stuck the remaining money into my subscription. I guess that because I use virtually all the apps in cloud everyday it just doesn't seem that bad. However if you only use 2 or 3 then I could see how the value can diminish all too quickly. Maybe there should be some kind of sliding scale so you pay for what you use?

  12. Barbarian At the Gates
    Trollface

    Doing an Elop

    Nokia did it with Windows Phone. Apple did it with iMovie Pro. Adobe is doing it with Creative Cloud. It's what all the corporate hipsters do these days.

  13. Dan Paul
    Devil

    Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!

    I am sick of lying software vendors that are selling software "rental" solutions instead of an actual product.

    When I purchase a product of any kind, I then own it. Once I own it, the right to use it when, where and how I want to, is conferred to me or mine. If I choose to use it forever, no vendor should be able to say we turned you off because you did not buy another update, subscription etc etc etc.

    SAAS cannot be interpreted to imply any ownership, only rental. This is just utter BS.

    As a group, all El Reg readers need to revolt and vote with their feet and wallet wherever possible to stop this ridiculous trend.

    Anyone who buys into the "cloud" is a fool because they have not "bought" anything. There is no product, no warranty, no physical ownership, and no responsibility from the vendor. The could is vaporware, plain and simple.

    Where is the value in that?

    1. tabinnorway
      Stop

      Re: Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!

      >> When I purchase a product of any kind, I then own it.

      No, you don't. Never have. Never will. This is why software companies as you to read the licensing terms before installing the software. Even the name of the document (LICENSE terms or similar) should be a clue.

      When you buy the software you buy the right to use it. How, for how long and within what limitations. You never owned software. You lease it.

      1. Dan Paul
        Devil

        Re: Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!

        No, It is my contention that any contract or other document that is deliberately too obtuse, lengthy or too complicated is not valid.

        Or at least it can be argued that it is not binding here in New York State where we have a plain english contract law.

        On the other hand, if the place where I "purchase" the software does not call it a purchase but calls it a lease or subscription than you might have a case but they did not call it a lease so the store misled me when I "bought" the product in question.

  14. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    FAIL

    Then there is the 'going off grid' situation

    Many Photographers go out in the field for long periods of time. Sometimes this is in places with limited ot no internet connectivity.

    Imaging the situation where you are out in the field for a few weeks and you want to edit some images.

    Then you get the message

    'Adobe Says No'

    And you app won't start simply because the app has been unable to phone home to verify that your subscription is still valid.

    MEGA - MEGA Fail all round.

    {as an amatuer photographer this applied to me a few years ago. I spent time on Kergulen Island in the Southern Indian Ocean. No internet for more than a month unless you were willing to pay the $20/min for a slow satellite connection}

    1. tabinnorway
      Alien

      Re: Then there is the 'going off grid' situation

      Read the FAQ. You have to be offline for 60 days before "Adobe Says No".

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    CS2 for free*

    Remember this? http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

    Get em while you can.

    old versions, but not dead versions.

    * Not even a bit grey.

  16. Two Posts
    Meh

    Surely a courageous move if ever there was one.

    ...So say folk in Adobe's UK partner base who are digesting the "bold" move confirmed earlier this week....

    Does El Reg not think Yes Minister (or perhaps it was Yes Prime Minister) merits an appropriate reference?

    One of my favourite comedy moments is Paul Eddington's expression after he has been told that is plan of action was "courageous". Apparently on the day after the episode was first aired the only civil servant response to any suggestion was "That's very courageous of you."

  17. loneranger

    Max

    I've been using InDesign for Bible publishing purposes since 2001, and bought the full new versions only periodically. I never need tech support except for a few questions on the forums, so I don't really care that adobe software is going to the cloud and perpetual subscriptions. Since my work is private and non-profit, I also don't care that future versions will work much better than the one I already own (CS4), because it works just fine, and will continue to do so for decades into the future.

    Previous versions of InDesign had serious shortcomings that needed upgraded versions to fix, but it has become so good now that I don't foresee any need to ever upgrade to the cloud subscription model. Too bad for Adobe. I would like to continue purchasing newer versions, but if they're going to try and milk me every month and lock me into a process which forces me to become their virtual prisoner, they can forget it.

  18. danolds
    Thumb Up

    Guess I'm the exception....

    ..but Adobe gained me as a customer with this package. I run a small business and found that I needed Premiere, Photoshop, Audition, and Illustrator to do our videos and other projects. I had a definite need, but couldn't quite justify spending $1,500 for the Premium Product suite or just buying a few of the products ($650 for Premiere, $600 for PS, $500 for Illustrator, and $350 for Audition).).

    For $50 per month, I get access to all of these products plus everything else I would ever need. I also get support and won't have to shell out more $$ for upgrades.Over the time I've been with the program (about a year now), they've added more products to my subscription, some useful to me, some not.

    Before Creative Cloud, I used point products (Adobe PS/Prem Elements, Audacity, others) and was constantly frustrated at what I couldn't do with them and the amount of time to get over several learning curves.. The Adobe products are extremely high quality and are well integrated. This has saved me a lot of time and I've been much happier with the results.

    On a straight financial basis, my $1,500 outlay would pay for 30 months of Creative Cloud subscriptions, so I would be in the hole on the 31st month of my subscription. But to me, paying $50 per month for everything I need, no charge upgrades, and support is well worth it. And if I find a better alternative, I can convert anything I produced with Adobe to a different format and use it in whatever software I end up using.

    Without the Creative Cloud, I wouldn't be an Adobe customer....

    1. markw:

      Re: Guess I'm the exception....

      Great! I'm in the UK. Where do I pay my $50?

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tax on the graphics industry, in our case at least.

    We run a corel shop for all our vector artwork (99% of our artwork is vector), and there are plenty of alternatives for editing raster images (particularly if you're sent RGB artwork, in-which case we pretty much couldn't give a fuck about colour fidelity)

    But you will get the odd punter who insists on sending you either Adobe illustrator or InDesign artwork, and for whatever reason isn't forthcoming with PDF's / EPS or anything else that could be considered an industry standard. We are basically going to have to shell out for a single seat licence for the sole purpose of accessing awkward punters artwork.

    Buying boxed copies was never much fun, but at least you owned something that retained some value, and could be had reasonably cheap if one shopped around. Now we will be paying an adobe tax just for access to a select few of their file formats (the ones we don't like) while their other formats (PDF EPS PS etc) are already integrated into everything we use.

  20. promytius
    FAIL

    re serif as laternative

    Please don't try it - it hijacked my home page, installed a toolbar and a "shopping service" and who knows what else. I wouldn't even advise going to the site.

    Stick with CS3 - you can do anything you need to with it - heck I can go all the way back to PS 4.0 and still do 95% of PS's tasks, so cloud on, I'm set for life with CS3 - see ya Adobe, stay up in the clouds.

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    reap what you sow

    If everyone screwed by this had put even a quarter what they spent on Photoshop into Gimp then they wouldn't be bent over the spank barrel now. Never support monopolies - you wouldn't be caught dead going into Starbucks, so why make the exception here?

  22. DesktopGuy

    Tough to be a reseller in Australia (I am not one)

    In Australia, the adobe website - http://adobe.com.au sell the software 10% cheaper than resellers.

    Reason is Adobe say their website is run out of Singapore (I think) meaning the don't have to charge GST.

    That puts every reseller inside Australia at a disadvantage as they all need to charge GST.

    All for cheaper prices - I do like to see a level playing field though...

  23. Stretch
    FAIL

    "It is the modern way of distributing software."

    They confuse distribution with licensing.

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