05-08-2013, 01:12 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
[quote=Bosco]
Adobe has changed Creative Suite to Creative Cloud and now only offers a subscriptions to their software. Which is great if renting software is OK with you. Personally, I'd rather own my software with no strings attached.
Read yesterday's thread here:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552805
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You never owned it. You owned some discs is all you owned, discs which were useless once you'd installed them on two computers and which you could theoretically get in trouble for lending to a friend or selling on eBay.
I discovered that it was even worse than this when my CS2 license stopped working when I upgraded to Tiger (or was it Leopard) on my old powerbook. I reinstalled and CS2 worked perfectly on the new OS for the 30 day free trial period but the license would no longer activate. I called Adobe and they said that they no longer supported installing CS2 on the new OS. What they really meant was that they had made the licensing key software inaccessible to machines running newer OSes, since the CS2 itself worked perfectly in free trial mode. Those people are crooks.
That seems very odd, because my CS2 apps run without this issue in Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. But I agree, not exactly that they are crooks, but that they are desperate to find a way to stay afloat that won't involve producing great, stable, innovative products.