Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

Re:Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Version... by freedomben on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:09PM (#19913382)

> "You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.

This is insane, and should be a clear wake up call for people previously apathetic about software freedom. When RMS talks about unethical software, this is the kind of things he means.

Seeing things like this make me so appreciative and grateful for GIMP and other free-as-in-speech tools (and to myself for having learned how to use them). Might be a good time to throw them a few bucks.

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Re:Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Version... by yzssi on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:21PM (#19914821)

When Adobe moved Photoshop to this kind of licence, every user should have been complained and refused to upgrade. But seemingly most of them did upgrade and therefore this is the new "normal". So, good luck with that. I'm not going to fight the war of someone who charges 6000€ for a logo.

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Re:Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Version... by bediger4000 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:25PM (#19913549)

I think you're looking at this wrong.

Without things like licenses that force users to pay more money to Adobe regardless of whether the users are actually running the latest version, Adobe can't make enough money to finance changes to their user agreements.

Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that!

Think of Adobe's lawyers' children!

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Re:Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Version... by wolfgke on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:10PM (#19914739)

> Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that!

This has nothing to do with capitalism, but with copyright.

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