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Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive

Posted by michael on from the extracting-monopoly-rents dept.

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)."

3 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. Who cares . Use opensource. by zymano · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Learn to write your own damn software !

    Try Gimp.

  2. Question by haxor.dk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now that most of us here agree that Adobe is slowly screwing their customers - I'd like to know, what alternatives to their products are there ?

    Photoshop - GIMP ? (come on...)
    Illustratore - Macromedia Freehand ?
    InDesign - Quark (oh dear!)
    Acrobat - ???

    Looks to me like we're screwed throughly until someone decides to expland GIMP or come up with a brand new program package that does vector illustration, portable documents, and advance image manipulation...

  3. they still dont get it by Datasage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Software avtivation schemes have been out for years in many diffrent forms. All they manage to do is inconvience the legal users of the product.

    The people who pirate will still pirate it anyway. These are not studios who have alot to loose if they get caught, but just students and independent users who want to learn the software.

    No copy protection sheme is unbreakable, its just a matter of time. It will be cracked.

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