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Adobe chose to link operation of paid copies to the say-so of a remote server, rather than allow independent operation of paid copies. Had they chosen the latte
by ctdonath 7y ago
Adobe chose to link operation of paid copies to the say-so of a remote server, rather than allow independent operation of paid copies. Had they chosen the latter, the gov't order would have been largely moot; what they chose proved devastating.
Designing a fail-safe system involves acknowledging that you may not know why the system may fail, just that something must be done to mitigate the problem if it does. International sanctions proved to be such an unexpected point of failure.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoAdobe customers also had a choice to purchase an uncrippled alternative.
- jtbayly 7y agoPrecisely. Everybody should vote with their wallets against all this subscription junk. And yet... For quite a few things, Adobe products are just irreplaceable.
- dunstad 7y agoWhen you vote with your wallet, people with more money get more votes.
- jtbayly 7y agoWhen you vote with your wallet the way that I described, the companies that act badly get fewer dollars. If they want to raise their prices more and more until 1 person is paying $1mil/year for their software, and he gets all the votes, that's fine by me.
- hoseja 7y agoAt some point it's more profitable to put more money in marketing. Large portions of the market operate like this. People are easily swayed.
- kgwxd 7y agoYou can also vote with your application of skill. Don't build products using crippled software for people with lots of money. They sure as hell aren't going to build it themselves.
- flukus 7y agoLately I keep seeing variations of the argument "I can't switch to x because the would be inconvenient somehow, so I'll just stick with y". Eg, "I can't switch to linux, because some games won't work so I'll just live with telemetry". Until people learn to face some inconvenience and limitations they'll just keep being abused by these companies. Changing the world requires some personal pain.
- yourbandsucks 7y agoTheir stock quadrupled since doing so, though. You might be proposing a bigger rebellion against capitalism than just illegally selling to Venezuela :)