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Yes I think CS5 is a lot harder to keep running due to the Adobe activation 'service'. What I find fascinating is a whole generation of people learnt last centu
by olivermarks 4y ago
Yes I think CS5 is a lot harder to keep running due to the Adobe activation 'service'. What I find fascinating is a whole generation of people learnt last century how to use Adobe sw on cracked Photoshop and others, an invaluable trained user base. Adobe have gone right to the other extreme of creating a walled garden with very tight monetization, which must surely result in a rapidly shrinking user base?
I've also heard horror stories of Adobe going after publicly listed companies who have multiple licenses for CS but who have people in offices in other countries who have gone shadow IT and are running unlicensed creative suites, with Adobe insisting they can sue the multinational company for license revenue for every single employee the company has worldwide.
None of this is healthy, whether a game, creative software or a car....
- bobthepanda 4y agoThis has at least spurred competition in the space. I find the Affinity products much better priced and providing the functionality i need
- LegitShady 4y agoI ended up buying Affinity Designer/Photo, and Procreate on ipad, to replace a huge amount of what I did with adobe software. It’s not perfect but its close enough, and I’d rather do a one time purchase and just have the license instead of the monthly subscription. I think adobe is pretty happy with the results of their switch to subscriptions, but I personally don’t get enough use out of it to pay monthly. I used CS5 for years and years - I don’t need to have the latest and greatest. Maybe for someone else it is worth it.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoI will never learn an Adobe product, in response.