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> > Do you want your favorite app to lock you in so you can't use any competing apps and then ratchet up the price sky high? > Yes, I want that. I don't quite

by jjav 3y ago

> > Do you want your favorite app to lock you in so you can't use any competing apps and then ratchet up the price sky high? > Yes, I want that. I don't quite believe you want that. You'll be willing to pay any amount of money for photoshop no matter how high? > When you buy a car you are usually "locked in" to using the propellant the manufacturer has settled on. This analogy shows the opposite. I can buy gas for my car from any number of places, all of them unrelated to he manufacturer. In fact, the manufacturer can discontinue the car model or can even go out of business entirely and yet I can still continue to buy gas from third parties and continue to use my car. How do you plan to continue using photoshop of adobe discontinues it? You can't.

tpmoney 3y ago
> How do you plan to continue using photoshop of adobe discontinues it? You can't. Double click the app and start it? Now if you're referring to cloud locks and garbage like that, well that's a risk you take if you decide you're going to use that, just like every single project on github takes the risk that Microsoft doesn't discontinue it. Or every single business that relied on CentOS was taking the risk that RedHat wouldn't discontinue it.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
  How about "no longer runs on the current version of macOS, and your macbook just died".
  - tpmoney 3y ago
    I feel like that's a risk for all software, OSS or not. If the OSS maintainers stop updating your software, it probably stops running on the latest version of your OS at some point. Apple or Microsoft may accelerate that process (Apple almost certainly, Microsoft less so as they're famously very concerned about backwards compatibility). Obviously there's some software that probably could keep running without updates almost forever, but even for simple things if you're dynamically linked against 32 bit libraries is going to have a hard time on 64 bit OSes if the 32 bit versions of that library aren't available. OSes may add or remove functionality your app relied upon. Heck as long as we're imagining a world where Adobe has decided to stop making photoshop, we could also imagine a world where IPv4 is finally deprecated and removed. How many applications out there assume an IP address is and will always be 4 octets?
- xigoi 3y ago
  > Double click the app and start it? Do you really think Adobe would let you do that?
carlosjobim 3y ago
> I don't quite believe you want that. Can you give me one example of software that is too expensive for its users? The higher priced software that exists is almost always professional tools, that the user makes money by using.

by jjav 3y ago

tpmoney 3y ago

> How do you plan to continue using photoshop of adobe discontinues it? You can't. Double click the app and start it? Now if you're referring to cloud locks and garbage like that, well that's a risk you take if you decide you're going to use that, just like every single project on github takes the risk that Microsoft doesn't discontinue it. Or every single business that relied on CentOS was taking the risk that RedHat wouldn't discontinue it.

PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
How about "no longer runs on the current version of macOS, and your macbook just died".
- tpmoney 3y ago
  I feel like that's a risk for all software, OSS or not. If the OSS maintainers stop updating your software, it probably stops running on the latest version of your OS at some point. Apple or Microsoft may accelerate that process (Apple almost certainly, Microsoft less so as they're famously very concerned about backwards compatibility). Obviously there's some software that probably could keep running without updates almost forever, but even for simple things if you're dynamically linked against 32 bit libraries is going to have a hard time on 64 bit OSes if the 32 bit versions of that library aren't available. OSes may add or remove functionality your app relied upon. Heck as long as we're imagining a world where Adobe has decided to stop making photoshop, we could also imagine a world where IPv4 is finally deprecated and removed. How many applications out there assume an IP address is and will always be 4 octets?
xigoi 3y ago
> Double click the app and start it? Do you really think Adobe would let you do that?

carlosjobim 3y ago

> I don't quite believe you want that. Can you give me one example of software that is too expensive for its users? The higher priced software that exists is almost always professional tools, that the user makes money by using.