Chris Harlan
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[Shawn Miller] “ol – I think a few companies are watching this with a lot of interest. I hope I’m wrong… but I think SAS is the way of the future. I think only smaller, open source developers will continue to offer perpetual licensing of software. I hope I’m wrong about that.
“Sadly, I think you’re right, and that is what is actually bugging me about this whole thing. I’m okay with the model for Adobe–I’d prefer the choice be there, but I’m okay with it–but I don’t like the notion of everything going this way. It might be unavoidable, but there it is.
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[Craig Seeman] “A long while back I thought it would be good to make this forum about industry trends which is really what it’s become. Consider how the CC debate ignited here even though it may have been happening in the Premiere forum as well.
“For sure. I think this forum HAS been about industry trends for a very long time. That’s why most of us still show up. Tim’s just holding the name hostage because he’s full of devilment (you know you are!) but we became something else a long time ago.
[Craig Seeman] “Of course as a forum manager it’s probably much more attractive to views to have a proper place that people scouring the web for discussion, can find.
“No. Its devilment.
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[Walter Soyka] “My personal view is that the best solution lies in improving open interchange formats, so that at least the major subset of the data becomes application-independent.”
I like that, too. Maybe its from years of being forced to move between programs, but the notion of community standards beyond any individual company is an important one to me. For me, one of the more troubling aspects of the FCP X release was the way that Apple, after investing so much time and energy in developing XML as an interchange format, chose to just walk away from the structure by redefining it, willy-nilly, to suit its own immediate needs. So, yes; I am all for strong interchange formats.
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “These things are always pretty disturbing to read.
When I started out on my own a few years ago and signed my first production contract with JWT, I thought the Terms had been drawn up with the sole intention of screwing me over at any moment of their choosing.
I guess at some point you have to trust that if you keep your end of the bargain, the other party will keep theirs.
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Almost all EULAs read like this. They are notorious for it. I mean, we can argue about EULA boilerplate in general and the over-reaching lawyers that put it together–I’ve always found that stuff amusing/vaguely frightening–but judging Adobe’s intentions by looking at it and ignoring what everybody else does seems a bit absurd.
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[Steve Connor] “[Chris Harlan] “to believe they truly want to become the central architecture, plumbing and nervous system for artistic creation in the 21st Century. That notion really scares me.”
Never going to happen
“I’m not saying it is. I’m just responding to Walter’s question.
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[Walter Soyka] “Our plans for Creative Cloud are much greater than the applications themselves. Our vision is to remove friction from the creative process and make it more productive and connected.
“I tend to like the vision when its hammered out by a standards community like SMPTE or SBE. It can be a bit Borgish when a single entity wants to be the entire process. On the other hand, the slow to sometimes non-existant pacing of standards committees can make simple decisions seem to take a lifetime.
Frankly, I think it makes me much less uncomfortable to think that Adobe just wants to find a way to lock in revenue–which I entirely understand–than to believe they truly want to become the central architecture, plumbing and nervous system for artistic creation in the 21st Century. That notion really scares me.
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Hey, I want to come too, man.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I actually get PPRo for eight quid a month.
one has done the sums here.
“Wow. That’s like 12.50 a month. NOT a bad deal.
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I just wanted to make sure you knew that if you own 6, you can now get CC for 19.99 instead of 29.99. I went and swapped mine out earlier today. And, since you are planning on paying 19.99 for Pr, I wanted to make sure you knew about the deal. That’s all.
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[David Lawrence] “Chris Harlan] “By the reasoning of the cartoon, several centuries of copyright law should be voided. I think that’s a ridiculous proposition.”
Chris, don’t get me wrong. I very much value the idea of intellectual property too. But I also value fair use, the public domain, and the human tradition of shared culture — a tradition far far older than the current notion of copyright.
I don’t think Nina Paley’s intention with this video is say copyright shouldn’t exist, rather it’s to question how it should co-exist with the public domain in a digitally-enabled culture. The Bono Copyright Act has nothing to do with protecting society.
“Yeah, I can go with all that. And, yes, I think the Bono thing is greed city.