FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by lenerdenator on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:06PM (#40708061)

<sarcasm>Dear lord, did you stop to think of the shareholders before you wrote that screed?!</sarcasm>

SaaS is a virus that has drastically reduced the power of the individual creator for the benefit of people who really don't need more money. I wish there were a viable FLOSS alternative to more of Adobe's CS software.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by dartos on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:10PM (#40708113)

SaaS itself is fine. A lot of software has recurring costs for the saas company (think clarifai, chatgpt, or circleci)

Subscriptions for software that you run on your own machine is a little much tho.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by lenerdenator on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:13PM (#40708141)

The word for the activity occurring in your second sentence used to just be called "hosting".

The problem is that there are fewer and fewer pieces of software that aren't hosted somewhere.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by hi-v-rocknroll on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:19PM (#40708250)

Gotcha capitalism with a side of rent-seeking.

If indies need it, then sure, it can be necessary to sustain smaller shops that have to support backend/cloud features and multiple OSes that churn APIs faster than a newspaper.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by datavirtue on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:57PM (#40721592)

Isn't the shareholder us?

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