Karl Fogel on Nostr: I just learned from a graphic designer that Adobe has moved to a subscription model ...
I just learned from a graphic designer that Adobe has moved to a subscription model for their software (I’d heard about this before, but she confirmed it and gave me some more details).
Wow, I hate the rental/subscription model for software even more than I hate proprietary executables that you purchase but which are at least locally final. A subscription model means they can yank it away at any time. For example, suppose you’re a designer living in Russia and you make an anti-war poster. Then the Russian government says to Adobe “You have to stop letting this person be a subscriber, or else we’ll block you from doing business in Russia at all.” What’s Adobe going to do? Having retained for themselves the power to cut people off, they are now subject to state actors forcing them to use that power.
I mean, sheesh, how much worse can we make things here? Bits-by-subscription is a terrible way to use computers, even worse than the already-bad model of proprietarily licensed executables with no source code.
Wow, I hate the rental/subscription model for software even more than I hate proprietary executables that you purchase but which are at least locally final. A subscription model means they can yank it away at any time. For example, suppose you’re a designer living in Russia and you make an anti-war poster. Then the Russian government says to Adobe “You have to stop letting this person be a subscriber, or else we’ll block you from doing business in Russia at all.” What’s Adobe going to do? Having retained for themselves the power to cut people off, they are now subject to state actors forcing them to use that power.
I mean, sheesh, how much worse can we make things here? Bits-by-subscription is a terrible way to use computers, even worse than the already-bad model of proprietarily licensed executables with no source code.