<rant>Meta: This is not directly related to Adobe, but SaaS in general. I do not want to pay a subscription for each piece of freaking software that I own. I d

<rant>Meta: This is not directly related to Adobe, but SaaS in general. I do not want to pay a subscription for each piece of freaking software that I own. I do not want my cellular company claiming it owns my phone. I understand that folks gotta make a living, and I feel for and support the little guys running niche SaaS businesses. But frack, not everybody can get on this bandwagon. Adobe is a great example. You pay out the ass to buy their software -- which is great, by the way -- then use it a half-dozen times a year. Should you pay 50 bucks a month? If not, you got nothing. This seems like a terribly bad trade. (Yes I know there are alternatives) Accounting software: last I checked, the ability to add and subtract was rather trivial for computers. Yet somehow businesses think I should pay a monthly fee for them to continue and add and subtract things from a ledger? Ring tones, simple note-taking, "renting" music to play... The list is getting rather large. Looking at my monthly spend, I'm paying a lot of money each month for stuff -- whether I use it or not -- that I used to just buy and use when I felt like it. The old model worked in my best interests. The new model does not. Something's gotta give. I can't imagine the online marketplace supporting everything like this. I also am getting extremely concerned for the poor people that we're effectively locking out of a huge class of software simply because they can't make their monthly vig.</rant>