On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 08:56 -0700, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Adobe doesn't sell CS6 anymore; they're all about the subscription. >
What's really cool about the proprietary subscription model is that once you're not subscribed, you've lost your data. Who wouldn't enjoy a situation like that? I don't want any of you to think I'm trying to get sympathy, but in 1990 I started using a spectacular drawing program called Micorgrafx Windows Draw (MGX Draw), and made hundreds of drawings with it. In the late 1990's MGX Draw was sold to a company operating out of a PO box, who promptly sunk it but wouldn't release the source. Unfortunately for me, I still had the install disk, so even today I have the option of running MGX Draw on Wine in order to access my drawings from the 1990's. Totally unacceptable. WordPerfect 5.1 is worse: Being a DOS program all I need to do is copy the WordPerfect 5.1 install directory to my Linux drive, run it under FreeDOS, and access all my 1980's Wordperfect files. This is a horrible invasion of the past. When it came to an outline processor called Grandview, I solved this problem even though Grandview wasn't a subscription. I lost the install CD and the executable tree, so now I cannot look at my Grandview files at all. This is how computing should work: Data over 7 years old must be discarded! Subscription software solves this problem elegantly. Imagine your joy when you go to open an old file, only to find that you no longer have an executable with which to look at the file. Then you might as well no longer back it up, keeping your backups smaller. I just love proprietary subscription software! SteveT --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
