Gary Huff
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[Jeremy Garchow] “That’s what bootlegging is?”
Who was denied use of the copy he bootlegged from his action?
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “Thanks Andrew – I’m on the PC, and I’ve tried GIMP in the past (several years ago – I hope it’s improved) and the GUI was incredibly clunky, but it did a whole lot of what Photoshop does.”
I actually played with it a few months ago, and its UI is jaw dropping…in a bad way.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” You are asking if theft is bad.”
No, you are telling him he is a thief. He is asking about copyright/EULA infringement.
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[Andy Field] “How long will you stay in business with that bootleg model? Where I live, we call that theft.”
Welcome to the world in which we live, where everything that can be copied, will be copied.
It’s called “copyright infringement” legally…because if I “steal” something from you, you do not have the ability to use what I took from you anymore…if I simply make a perfect copy, you still have use of yours.
Besides, what if I take the exact same shots of Washington DC and put it up on the web for free? How would that be any different as an end result? Should I be legally prohibited from doing so?
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[TImothy Auld] “Not that I am as pure as the driven snow in this regard, I still think it’s just like robbing a 7-11.”
No, it’s more like downloading blueprints and printing your own copy of the products that 7-11 carries.
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[Richard Cardonna] “Maybe thats why the adobe CEo just said that they where not planning any CS version instead of saying that there will be no future CS version. HMM. an escape hatch?”
I would be surprised if Adobe doesn’t backtrack on this issue.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I keep seeing the dooms day scenario of people saying, “Well, certainly now that Adobe has this subscription model they will certain stop innovating” and I don’t understand the logic behind that.”
You can’t really say either way at one point. To many people, the suite feels nearly complete. Perhaps there isn’t much left to innovate on…perhaps there is.
Only time will tell.
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[Andy Field] “If you hold your breath and turn blue, I’m sure they’ll change their mind.”
Yeah, because bitching over licensing schemes never works.
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[Andy Field] “Which is why Adobe can set up the payment plan they want – they’ve made a huge investment – now they’re making their profit. If you run a business and don’t do this you don’t remain in business very long.”
They’ve been making a profit for well before Creative Cloud. Seriously, I’m having to trash my own side of this issue because of the b.s.
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[Jim Giberti] “It’s terribly written, with all the acumen and insight of a junior high term paper.”
Yeah, here’s one thing that’s complete b.s. from that article:
Nobody is holding a shotgun to your head making you buy their products. There are lots of alternatives.
There aren’t really that many alternatives. I’ve looked at GIMP…it’s a nightmare UI design. Functional, yes, but not a replacement. Lightworks? Requires a yearly subscription to be usable (no XDCam, AVCHD, ProRes, XF, or H.264 support without paying them $60 per year).
But for people like me, the switch to the Creative Cloud has been a Godsend. I personally couldn’t be happier about the plan. I get more frequent updates.
Bullshit. Adobe has been updating about at the same pace since CS3 came out. Updates haven’t been automagically been installed to my machine with Creative Cloud, though I simply have a second option now (I can install updates through Adobe Application Manager, or through the “Updates” function under the help menu).
The haters simply don’t understand it.
Please, this is the same stupid crap the FCPXers keep spouting, and it’s equally as ridiculous here. I have had a good experience with CC and yet I completely see the point from the other side of the coin. Not to say there isn’t a ton of FUD being spread, but it is what it is.
The haters say Adobe is greedy. Apparently they didn’t see that Adobe just made CS2 free of charge (edit). How greedy of them. Here’s the link — https://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/.
Wow, and that was completely not true. Even on the link it says you shouldn’t download it unless you own it.
The haters think that if they create PSD files and then stop subscribing they will never be able to open those files again. This is just plain stupid and just plain wrong. I know of about 10 different software programs that not only open but manipulate PSD files. You also always have the option of saving TIFF files, etc.
Well, yes. If the software stops working and you can’t even get into it to save a different version (are we seriously supposed to be constantly saving two versions just in case this happens? That’s stupid.), and then, say, GIMP can’t open the PSD correctly (as has been reported here for certain files), you are in a shit-load of trouble.
They have more incentive than ever to improve the program. If they don’t keep it current, then you cancel your subscription and switch to something else.
Again, assuming you can just switch to something else. What exactly? We had to bust monopolies in the past because it’s not simply a foregone conclusion that if you treat your customers like crap, they’ll just move on to something else. There’s not always something else to move onto. Just look at the state of ISPs in the U.S.
10. (This is the REAL reason for 90% of the noise!) The haters are mad because they realize they can no longer pirate copies of Photoshop.
Oh come on. Adobe software will be even easier to pirate now. Do you heat me? EVEN EASIER. Why? Because it connects to an activation service once every thirty days. How to pirate? Fake activation server that runs locally. They’ve been doing this sort of thing since Windows 7/Office 2010, so I’d assume they have it pretty well down by now.