>> As for cars, leasing has been a huge business for a couple of decades. >> There's also a growing adoption of ride shares (pay for shared use of a >> car), and rentals still are thriving. >>
Yes, but when they started leasing cars, they didn't remove the option to buy them! I'm not against leasing software. I'm against having my choice removed to own... er... license a perpetual copy that will continue to work without paying a monthly fee forever. And I know I won't lose my content. I was talking about the fact that I've got over a decade's worth of PSD and AI files. Other programs don't always handle these native files so well, if at all. So moving to a subscription model, if I later decide to unsubscribe, I face the task of converting the files beforehand to something more universal, like TIF. Thank goodness my CS6 will still, presumably work for some time, so that I can continue to use my native files as is. But a lot of CC users are going to start out as CC users-- not as former CS users with existing perpetual-license software on their computers. When they unsubscribe, they won't have an old version to fall back on. They'll be done. Mike Wickham -- /Sent from my supercharged custom computer with three 24" monitors. It beats the crap out of anybody's piddly smartphone./ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130510/306ca4f8/attachment.html>
