[Leica] Petition Against Adobe Subscription Model

[red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone)]

Here is what I see as major problems....

It is 2018, you have been paying $20 a month for 4 years for CS-CC.  Adobe
decides to go broke, decides to support some new computer architecture,
decides to no longer support MAC ( or IBM) OS, or decides that it needs to
upgrade its software to the point that the old images you manipulated in
2008 no longer can be opened/manipulated by CS-CC/2018.

Now what?  Migrate thousands of images to some new SW?  What about your
previous manipulations?  Do they stick or do they get eliminated in the
migration?

It is late one evening.  You need to make edits to images and deliver those
images to your client first thing in the AM.  Adobe, that day,
changed/upgraded something and you now can no longer find some feature you
have been using for the past years.  You are under time constraints.  You
can not find the way to interact with the program like you have been...  Now
What?  

Owning SW always means that it can be used, in the future, as needed, on the
HW and OS that it was originally intended, in the way it always ran.  It
means YOU decide when to upgrade, migrate, etc.

CC is the newest risk.

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net