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Re:Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal by chii on Sunday July 28, 2019 @08:26AM (#20547176)
subscription software should be illegal _if_ the software does not also contain a feature to port/export your data out in a standard (and supported-by-a-competitor) format.

If they are able to hold your data hostage, then it's not a free-association relationship, and should not be called a subscription, but instead an extortion. Sell me a perpetual license, or sell me a subscription plus ability to move away.

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Re:Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal by ttoinou on Sunday July 28, 2019 @08:48AM (#20547249) 

    then it's not a free-association relationship
Why ? You can test the trial for free and discover for yourself that you'll be locked in -- or not.

BTW Photoshop's .psd can be opened in others software. You can export FCP XML from Premiere Pro for Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve (and probably others NLE). You can open Premiere Pro's .prproj, unzip it, extract the XML and edit it yourself; The same goes for After Effects projects, based on RIFF https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form....

Please educate yourself little bit about the products you're criticizing

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