It's very possible the distinction will one day become closed source as service VS OSS, and the wedge of perennial licenses inbetween will be nearly non-existent offerings wise. With the increase in computation as a service rather than a hard commodity kept in air conditioned rooms those two licensing models work well, licenses tied to CPUs don't.
They do need to revise the price points though, or provide immensely better service and updates to individuals, coupled with a much, much smoother and easier transition for third parties and a more stable platform. If upgrading Maya keeps being the Russian roulette with 5 bullets for 6 chambers of the last four or five versions, and every time a developer farts you have to fall back to aging tool chains (updated every 8 or so years), and recompile your plugins only to find half of them broken by the changes, things won't go well. Hopefully they will have enough time to rein the lot in and make it work. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Byron Nash <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you all not think that probably all software will go to a service > model? Not that I'm entirely in favor one way or the other, it just seems > like that's the way things are headed. I haven't minded the Adobe CC move > that much. At least I can stay current and not have to bicker with the > company about upgrades every year or so. > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
