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Probably referring to the SaaS turn?

• robertlagrant 3y ago
  But you still have the current software and your current files. Who's locked out?
  • vetinari 3y ago
    That last, non-rented version might not run on the current hardware. Like CS2, which ran on PowerPC Macs. Intel and ARM macs need not apply.
    • dylan604 3y ago
      Didn't they go well beyond CS2 though? Why did you pick such an old version? We ran Adobe on Intel Macs well before SaaS. In fact, we were running Adobe Premiere before Final Cut was released.
    • robertlagrant 3y ago
      That's not locking you out of your content, though. If Adobe vanished then we wouldn't say that they locked us out of our files when a new chipset came along. I don't think they have a mandate to deliver future changes to their software for nothing that maintain chipset support for anything we might buy.
  • NikolaNovak 3y ago
    * Adobe switched to subscription model. * Locked-in (for various reasons) userbase moved in to subscription model en masse, begrudgingly and complainingly * Now, as soon as you stop subscription, your software stops working, and your catalogue will not work with pre-subscription files We can debate semantics of "turned on the screws" and "screwed over", but take it on my word that most of us are feeling thus :). Yes we were hoisted by own petard and choices.
    • robertlagrant 3y ago
      I'm not criticising that. I'm saying if you have a copy of the version you bought (or pirated!) then you aren't locked out of your content back in the day.