<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff">That's why I'm still using CS6 (when I'm not just using Gimp instead); not going to pay for a perpetual subscription for something I don't use daily, <br>They might want me to do it, but I'm not paying forever for a piece of software that gets marginally better if at all over time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff">I'm not a fan of Office 365 or other software that plays this game. I'd rather use Google Docs :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;display:inline!important;float:none">I hope LibreOffice keeps getting better; it's almost there.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;display:inline!important;float:none"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;display:inline!important;float:none">JD</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff"><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 08:56 -0700, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> Adobe doesn't sell CS6 anymore; they're all about the subscription.<br>
> <br>
<br>
What's really cool about the proprietary subscription model is that once you're not<br>
subscribed, you've lost your data. Who wouldn't enjoy a situation like that?<br>
<br>
I don't want any of you to think I'm trying to get sympathy, but in 1990 I started<br>
using a spectacular drawing program called Micorgrafx Windows Draw (MGX Draw), and<br>
made hundreds of drawings with it. In the late 1990's MGX Draw was sold to a company<br>
operating out of a PO box, who promptly sunk it but wouldn't release the source.<br>
Unfortunately for me, I still had the install disk, so even today I have the option<br>
of running MGX Draw on Wine in order to access my drawings from the 1990's. Totally<br>
unacceptable. WordPerfect 5.1 is worse: Being a DOS program all I need to do is copy<br>
the WordPerfect 5.1 install directory to my Linux drive, run it under FreeDOS, and<br>
access all my 1980's Wordperfect files. This is a horrible invasion of the past.<br>
<br>
When it came to an outline processor called Grandview, I solved this problem even<br>
though Grandview wasn't a subscription. I lost the install CD and the executable<br>
tree, so now I cannot look at my Grandview files at all. This is how computing<br>
should work: Data over 7 years old must be discarded!<br>
<br>
Subscription software solves this problem elegantly. Imagine your joy when you go to<br>
open an old file, only to find that you no longer have an executable with which to<br>
look at the file. Then you might as well no longer back it up, keeping your backups<br>
smaller.<br>
<br>
I just love proprietary subscription software!<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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