[Mike Dar]

This reminds me of what Politics are at large. Forced participation.
Essentially, one will not own ones work eventually, without participation. I know it sounds like an extreme comparison, but the idea that tomorrow, to utilize what I created yesterday, I need to spend, sure reminds me of socialized systems we see coming into effect.
To say; what we created, we ‘did not make’, because it does not exist without paying daily for it TO EXIST.
So I see this as something beyond a modeling of profits for Adobe, I see the cloud paradigm as Adobe participating in MY… ownership of created efforts.
Don’t take this as a Political statement, but as seeing a real comparable in Adobes future business modeling going away from independent ownership. Do I like collaborating on the net, sure, do I believe this is taking advantage of consumers to where Adobe participates at each level of the products commercial use, you bet.
It really seems like a tax, kinda like arguing Obamacare status, is it a tax? And what is ‘is’, and how did Adobe come to believe if the government can do it, we can too?
Adobe could have done its cloud participation differently and made out like bandits in many ways, without creating a ‘tax’ structure as I see it becoming.