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Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive
An anonymous reader writes "This is a follow-up to an earlier story on slashdot about Adobe releasing their Creative Suite package. It seems that Adobe has decided to go they way of Intuit's TurboTax last year and add activation to their products. Legitimate users are up in arms. For Adobe, they follow the steps of other companies, macromedia, quark (who coincidentally shipped their entire engineering offshore) in the graphics biz. Now since in theory they'll be making more money, I hope at least the price goes down (oops, it did not, looks like the upgrade price even increased)."
What the fuck is this attitude? Photoshop seems to be the most copied piece of software out there, it was only a matter of time till they started covering their asses. They've been entirely too permisive, I mean a Photoshop 2.0 key worked with Photoshop 4.0. This post is probably born out of the frustration with there not having been a cracked release of Creative Suite yet.
The GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop.
It is free.
With that unbeatable price, you even get the source code !
If there's a bug, you can do the debugging yourself.
Plus, if you think you wanna tweak the code to your own liking, you can do it.
With photoshop, you don't get the source code.
Plus, if you want a legal copy, be prepared to fork over your hard earned money.
Also, if you find a bug, you can't do anything about it, because you are at the mercy of Adobe.
So why are you using Photoshop ?
Download GIMP now !
You won't regret it.
Ever !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Wah, wah, the sky is falling.
What if terrorists execute a simultaneous detonation of a dirty bomb in every major US city? What if the Marlins beat the Yankees? What if the sun supernovas tomorrow?
Your problem with activation may be bigger than Adobe, but this topic isn't. Let's not chase non-existant "what if" scenarios, okay?
Nathan