But if it has a non-removable battery, they can keep it. Phones without removable batteries are disposable, and I won't pay more than $50.00 for a disposable phone.
Yep. I've been CC-Free for about a year now. I got tired of paying their ransom every month, especially since most of the new versions were shit anyway. When I canceled CC, most of the stuff I was using was still CS6, anyway. The new versions seemed like they were written by people who never actually used the software in production environments. So what exactly was I paying for?
Canceling CC also forced me to find new software, which turned out to be better than Adobe's stuff. Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer do everything I need graphics-wise (and faster and better than Photoshop and Illustrator did). Serif also just sent me a beta of Affinity Publisher that looks very promising.
Magix Movie Edit Pro replaced Adobe Premiere Pro for my needs, and is much easier, faster, and more stable than Premiere Pro ever was. Premiere Pro was always overkill for my needs, anyway.
Adobe is digging their own grave. Good riddance to them.
I'm actually a free-trade guy who voted for Gary Johnson. But this announcement by CaseLabs stinks of bullshit to me. There simply isn't enough dollar value worth of steel (nor any raw material, for that matter) in their products that the tariffs would force them out of business. It might raise the price of a case by a couple of dollars (if that much), but that's about it.
Frankly, I doubt there's more than $5.00 to $7.00 worth of raw material in an average computer case. Maybe $10.00 for a fancy one with lights and whistles. It seems impossible to me that a 25 percent tariff on materials would drive them into bankruptcy.
I figure one of two things is happening:
1. They could still stay in business if they wanted to, but their profit margin might shrink a bit; or
2. The bad debt would have driven them into bankruptcy even without the tariffs, but they hate Trump and didn't want to miss an opportunity to blame him for their problems.
I don't like tariffs. But I don't like bullshit, either; and this announcement reeks of it to me.
I think that should apply to abandoned software in general. If a publisher has pulled a title from the market, has no intention of ever marketing it again, and is no longer supporting it, where are the damages if some individual or group decides to maintain it for legacy users who still find it useful?
The only argument I can think of would be that is provides users of old software a way out of being coerced to buy newer software when the old software still serves their needs -- a rather poor argument if the software was purchased with a perpetual license. I don't think facilitating extortion is a valid justification for DMCA nor part of its stated purpose.
I'm already semi-retired, and if all DCC software went subscription-only, I'd fully retire.
I just canceled my Adobe subscription this past month after using their software for something like 18 or 19 years if you include the legacy Macromedia days. I believe the feeling I had when I clicked the "Cancel" button must be very much like how prisoners feel when their release dates come around. I am overjoyed to be rid of Adobe's noose around my neck.
Fortunately, there never will come the day when there are no outright purchase options for most people's needs. A very few may be so locked into some product or another that there simply is no substitute; but for the rest of us, the hatred of subscriptions will always result in the availability of options via the magic of the free markets.
In my own case, I only used Dreamweaver out of habit. I really didn't need it and hadn't used the WYSIWYG functionality in many years. Netbeans and a local Apache server do the job quite nicely for me, as would any of the bazillion other text editors and IDE's out there.
If you do need WYSIWYG, BlueGriffon and Pinegrow are capable replacements. I tried them out when I decided to cancel my Adobe subscription, but ultimately settled on Netbeans instead. CoffeeCup also seems to still be in business and at least used to be WYSIWYG many years ago.
Serif Affinity Photo and Affinity Design replace Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator for my particular workflow needs (and maybe yours). They follow in Serif's long tradition of publishing high-quality, yet inexpensive software. I highly recommend that you try them out if you're looking to break Adobe's stranglehold on your wallet. (And no, I don't work for Serif.)
For video editing, practically any non-linear editor is good enough for me. I used Premiere Pro because it was included with CC, not because I actually needed anything that powerful. Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium is inexpensive, stable (probably more stable than Premiere Pro, to be honest), non-subscription, and more than powerful enough for my needs. I'm not Spielberg, after all.
I think a lot of people who claim that they simply must have some particular application just don't want to learn a replacement. If you open Affinity Photo expecting a clone of Photoshop, for example, you'll probably be disappointed. But most of the functionality is in there if you look for it. It just isn't where you're used to it being.
It took my finally get sick enough of having Adobe's noose around my neck for me to invest the time to look for and learn how to use replacements. It also took a few weeks of slower workflow and longer hours while I re-learned the muscle-memory part of my job to the point that repetitive operations became automatic again. But now that I've shed Adobe's chains, I'm happy that I did.
Screw Adobe and their subscription model. They lost a nearly 20-year customer, and I'm doing just fine without them.
Slashdot Mirror
But if it has a non-removable battery, they can keep it. Phones without removable batteries are disposable, and I won't pay more than $50.00 for a disposable phone.
Yep. I've been CC-Free for about a year now. I got tired of paying their ransom every month, especially since most of the new versions were shit anyway. When I canceled CC, most of the stuff I was using was still CS6, anyway. The new versions seemed like they were written by people who never actually used the software in production environments. So what exactly was I paying for?
Canceling CC also forced me to find new software, which turned out to be better than Adobe's stuff. Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer do everything I need graphics-wise (and faster and better than Photoshop and Illustrator did). Serif also just sent me a beta of Affinity Publisher that looks very promising.
Magix Movie Edit Pro replaced Adobe Premiere Pro for my needs, and is much easier, faster, and more stable than Premiere Pro ever was. Premiere Pro was always overkill for my needs, anyway.
Adobe is digging their own grave. Good riddance to them.
Try Serif Affinity Photo.
How funny. They oppose censorship in China, but they want censorship here.
I'm actually a free-trade guy who voted for Gary Johnson. But this announcement by CaseLabs stinks of bullshit to me. There simply isn't enough dollar value worth of steel (nor any raw material, for that matter) in their products that the tariffs would force them out of business. It might raise the price of a case by a couple of dollars (if that much), but that's about it.
Frankly, I doubt there's more than $5.00 to $7.00 worth of raw material in an average computer case. Maybe $10.00 for a fancy one with lights and whistles. It seems impossible to me that a 25 percent tariff on materials would drive them into bankruptcy.
I figure one of two things is happening:
1. They could still stay in business if they wanted to, but their profit margin might shrink a bit; or
2. The bad debt would have driven them into bankruptcy even without the tariffs, but they hate Trump and didn't want to miss an opportunity to blame him for their problems.
I don't like tariffs. But I don't like bullshit, either; and this announcement reeks of it to me.
I think that should apply to abandoned software in general. If a publisher has pulled a title from the market, has no intention of ever marketing it again, and is no longer supporting it, where are the damages if some individual or group decides to maintain it for legacy users who still find it useful?
The only argument I can think of would be that is provides users of old software a way out of being coerced to buy newer software when the old software still serves their needs -- a rather poor argument if the software was purchased with a perpetual license. I don't think facilitating extortion is a valid justification for DMCA nor part of its stated purpose.
I'm already semi-retired, and if all DCC software went subscription-only, I'd fully retire.
I just canceled my Adobe subscription this past month after using their software for something like 18 or 19 years if you include the legacy Macromedia days. I believe the feeling I had when I clicked the "Cancel" button must be very much like how prisoners feel when their release dates come around. I am overjoyed to be rid of Adobe's noose around my neck.
Fortunately, there never will come the day when there are no outright purchase options for most people's needs. A very few may be so locked into some product or another that there simply is no substitute; but for the rest of us, the hatred of subscriptions will always result in the availability of options via the magic of the free markets.
In my own case, I only used Dreamweaver out of habit. I really didn't need it and hadn't used the WYSIWYG functionality in many years. Netbeans and a local Apache server do the job quite nicely for me, as would any of the bazillion other text editors and IDE's out there.
If you do need WYSIWYG, BlueGriffon and Pinegrow are capable replacements. I tried them out when I decided to cancel my Adobe subscription, but ultimately settled on Netbeans instead. CoffeeCup also seems to still be in business and at least used to be WYSIWYG many years ago.
Serif Affinity Photo and Affinity Design replace Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator for my particular workflow needs (and maybe yours). They follow in Serif's long tradition of publishing high-quality, yet inexpensive software. I highly recommend that you try them out if you're looking to break Adobe's stranglehold on your wallet. (And no, I don't work for Serif.)
For video editing, practically any non-linear editor is good enough for me. I used Premiere Pro because it was included with CC, not because I actually needed anything that powerful. Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium is inexpensive, stable (probably more stable than Premiere Pro, to be honest), non-subscription, and more than powerful enough for my needs. I'm not Spielberg, after all.
I think a lot of people who claim that they simply must have some particular application just don't want to learn a replacement. If you open Affinity Photo expecting a clone of Photoshop, for example, you'll probably be disappointed. But most of the functionality is in there if you look for it. It just isn't where you're used to it being.
It took my finally get sick enough of having Adobe's noose around my neck for me to invest the time to look for and learn how to use replacements. It also took a few weeks of slower workflow and longer hours while I re-learned the muscle-memory part of my job to the point that repetitive operations became automatic again. But now that I've shed Adobe's chains, I'm happy that I did.
Screw Adobe and their subscription model. They lost a nearly 20-year customer, and I'm doing just fine without them.
Richard
At some point the Deep State needs to realize that they work for the people, not the other way around.
There's really no replacement for it, and Adobe's pretty much abandoned it.