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)."

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Re:The problem with activation for legimitate user

[Osty]

With software activation, I can't set up this failsafe without blowing my department's budget.

Activation or not, if the software's license doesn't allow you to install on two machines, you're putting your department at more risk than just their budget. Aside from that, if the activation is properly implemented you should not have any problems at all (see Windows XP; as much as people complained, it's dead simple to reactivate XP, even if you're installing it on a different machine -- if you can't do it directly over the internet, you can do it through an automated phone system that takes less than 5 minutes without any human intervention but yours required).

However, if your applications die so often that this is a major concern, you're doing something wrong. Most likely, you have crap hardware because you skimped on it. Consider fixing the problem, rather than complaining because this might impact your band-aid efforts.