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I feel like the main takeaway is that they recognized non-commercial use of this crazy expensive software to be legitimate. I think this covers 80% of the use c

I feel like the main takeaway is that they recognized non-commercial use of this crazy expensive software to be legitimate. I think this covers 80% of the use cases where people turn to piracy instead. Good on Pixar. Lets see if Adobe follows suit sometime soon. I know some design students who don't buy a lot of textbooks but have a hole in their pocket from Creative Suite.

whyenot 12y ago
>I know some design students who don't buy a lot of textbooks but have a hole in their pocket from Creative Suite. An educational license for Adobe Creative Cloud, which covers virtually all of Adobe's products, is $300 a year. I'm sorry, but if you are in art school and can't afford to pay that there is something very, very wrong and it's not with the price. Many schools even have a site license and you only pay a nominal fee or nothing at all for Adobe CC while enrolled.
- dickinurass 12y ago
  can you even run photoshop on your rasbperry pi hippie
cookiecaper 12y ago
Creative Cloud allows you to purchase a valid license for Adobe products for a reasonable monthly fee. For the first time ever, I have a fully legal copy of Photoshop that I pay $10 a month to use (I still mostly use GIMP and ImageMagick though). More specialized software, like Illustrator, is more than that each month (something like $40/mo iirc), but if you need it for school, you can justify it. I think Creative Cloud is cool because it actually makes it reasonable to pay for some Adobe software, and you don't have to sink a bunch of time into cracks, activation workarounds, etc. I don't know if it's going to actually be more profitable for Adobe long-term or not, but as a consumer, I'm excited to see them try something new.