On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:30 PM, JOANNA A. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not an economics expert by any means, but a friend told me the > following story. I cannot divulge the names on a public list because I do > not want to get him or me in trouble. > > He is highly placed at a software company that has pretty much a monopoly > in its area of expertise. Lately the people running this corporation have > decided to go to a rent model. They have not done this because it's popular > with their customers. Their customers hate the idea, and many of them face > significantly higher costs from renting than buying. The programmers are > not happy with this either because for the most part programmers don't like > the idea of screwing over the people who use their software. > This must be Adobe. I think they are having a bit of a backlash on this. It should be interesting to see how this goes. http://forums.adobe.com/message/5310400 -raghu.
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