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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by tambourine_man on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:20AM (#23188865)
It took many years and millions, being bundled with the rest of the Adobe suite and, perhaps most importantly, the arrival of OS X and Quark’s inability to migrate to it, for InDesign to displace Quark. And let’s not forget that Adobe had years of experience with PageMaker.

Pro software is hard.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by ascagnel_ on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:03AM (#23191668)
Hell, I remember 2003-2005 and being _excited_ to switch to InDesign. I think the issue pro software has is that at some point it's basically "done", with only small updates still required, yet the developers of said pro software need to make their sales numbers.

I'd be fine with cloud subscription software if the TCO ended up being lower than buying a boxed product, but it's seemingly more expensive than it ever was. $10USD/mo doesn't seem bad, but if you're comparing to a two-year, $200 upgrade price, then you're spending $40 more and can't opt to skip the latest menu reshuffle.

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