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While I'm not a fan of Adobe, people need to realize that the software industry changed a lot in the last decade. In the past one could write software for an OS

While I'm not a fan of Adobe, people need to realize that the software industry changed a lot in the last decade. In the past one could write software for an OS such as Windows or Classic Mac and have it working for decades. Nowadays, any software developer will tell you how difficult it is to maintain software even across single digit changes. Companies like Apple, Google, and even MS have forced developers to toil on rewrites year after year to support the new operating systems they release. In the web this is even worse. So I think that the old model of buying software and expecting that it will work for a long time is dead, killed by the process used by big companies. What is left is either well-maintained open source or subscription-based commercial software.

r3trohack3r 6y ago
Seeing a lot of comments like this here. Lightroom v6 still seems to work, in spite of what you reference in your comment. This article isn’t about Adobe failing to maintain software, or that Lightroom v6 needs a rewrite. The software still works if you change the system clock. The software breaking seems to be a licensing issue. Adobe sold customers this software under a perpetual license when Adobe did not have a perpetual license for the libraries they bundled in the sale. I’m not sure how Adobe could legally do this.
izacus 6y ago
Oh, come on. The computer market has never been more consolidated, less diverse and running less operating systems than now. Adobes software runs on the same OSes it ran years ago - Windows and macOS. Even more so, the software itself has never been less configurable, less flexible and less platform specific. From times where you had adjustable title bars, UI panels and configurable professional UIs we ended up with inflexible, hardcoded layouts with unchangeable fonts and built in HTML filled with recycled JS components that were given to developers for free from others. And to top all that off, those developers now demand perpetual rent so they don't actually need to show value of updates while they forcefully shove them down our throats with no option to stop.
grishka 6y ago
Don't update your OS if the version you're currently using works well for you.

r3trohack3r 6y ago

Seeing a lot of comments like this here. Lightroom v6 still seems to work, in spite of what you reference in your comment. This article isn’t about Adobe failing to maintain software, or that Lightroom v6 needs a rewrite. The software still works if you change the system clock. The software breaking seems to be a licensing issue. Adobe sold customers this software under a perpetual license when Adobe did not have a perpetual license for the libraries they bundled in the sale. I’m not sure how Adobe could legally do this.

izacus 6y ago

Oh, come on. The computer market has never been more consolidated, less diverse and running less operating systems than now. Adobes software runs on the same OSes it ran years ago - Windows and macOS. Even more so, the software itself has never been less configurable, less flexible and less platform specific. From times where you had adjustable title bars, UI panels and configurable professional UIs we ended up with inflexible, hardcoded layouts with unchangeable fonts and built in HTML filled with recycled JS components that were given to developers for free from others. And to top all that off, those developers now demand perpetual rent so they don't actually need to show value of updates while they forcefully shove them down our throats with no option to stop.

grishka 6y ago

Don't update your OS if the version you're currently using works well for you.