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This is really bad for artists. Many folks I know picked up copies of CS5 when they were in collage for $400 and have been using them for the last 5 years. Now
by frozenport 14y ago
This is really bad for artists. Many folks I know picked up copies of CS5 when they were in collage for $400 and have been using them for the last 5 years. Now they will need to pay more per month than a cellphone with a data contract. With Adobe posting massive profits, this is an act of greed and I hope antitrust regulators will look at Adobe with more scrutiny.
- joelhooks 14y agoYou "can't" use education licenses for professional work anyway.
- frozenport 14y agoIn North America you can use an educational license of CS for any freelance work.
- canthonytucci 14y agoThis is really good for artists. Many folks I know wouldn't be able to justify $1200 laid out all at once, but would still like to be able to use the most up to date version of creative suite. Now they can pay less than the price their morning coffee every day. Plenty of others I know really only use Photoshop, which will come out to $0.65/day, even the starving artists I know can afford that.
- shock-value 14y agoYeah as joelhooks said, if these people are using their educational versions to produce products for sale, they are committing fraud. EDIT: Seems to depend which educational version they have installed ... some are ok for commercial use, some are not.
- gte910h 14y agoNo they're not committing fraud (a crime), they're violating their software licence (a tort) at most
- ixacto 14y agoLike anyone who is poor or lives outside the USA/Canada actually cares if it is pirated or not. The moment adobe started requiring 'activation' for their software was the moment that I decided not to buy it anymore.
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