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Re: Adobe shifts to subscriptions for software package
Subject:Re: Adobe shifts to subscriptions for software package From:David Crosswell <davidcrosswell -at- internode -dot- on -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 08 May 2013 06:56:22 +1000
On 07/05/13 13:51, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> A couple of apps I use have gone from traditional releases to
> subscriptions that expire. I haven't upgraded either of them since
> their last perpetual license release.
Yes, that's the way I like to operate also.
Blackmail doesn't wash.
And there are some excellent replacements around.
There's very little that Photoshop can do that GIMP can't, for example,
and after that, extend into Blender.
Cheers!
David.
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