Proprietary Subscription Software: was Photoshop

[Joe Neglia]

Good to see another Grandview user here!  I originally used PC-Outline that
was included with WordStar all those years ago, but later found Grandview
was an upgraded version.  I run it now under DosBox.  (WordStar, too, when
I really need to write seriously.)  I'm really surprised that there is
still no open source outlining program similar to Grandview.

*Thank goodness* Linux can run those old proprietary programs.

I would rather have a bag of mosquitoes tied around my head than subscribe
to online proprietary software.  No way I'm going to be chained to a
treadmill.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 08:56 -0700, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > Adobe doesn't sell CS6 anymore; they're all about the subscription.
> >
>
> What's really cool about the proprietary subscription model is that once
> you're not
> subscribed, you've lost your data. Who wouldn't enjoy a situation like
> that?
>
> I don't want any of you to think I'm trying to get sympathy, but in 1990 I
> started
> using a spectacular drawing program called Micorgrafx Windows Draw (MGX
> Draw), and
> made hundreds of drawings with it. In the late 1990's MGX Draw was sold to
> a company
> operating out of a PO box, who promptly sunk it but wouldn't release the
> source.
> Unfortunately for me, I still had the install disk, so even today I have
> the option
> of running MGX Draw on Wine in order to access my drawings from the
> 1990's. Totally
> unacceptable. WordPerfect 5.1 is worse: Being a DOS program all I need to
> do is copy
> the WordPerfect 5.1 install directory to my Linux drive, run it under
> FreeDOS, and
> access all my 1980's Wordperfect files. This is a horrible invasion of the
> past.
>
> When it came to an outline processor called Grandview, I solved this
> problem even
> though Grandview wasn't a subscription. I lost the install CD and the
> executable
> tree, so now I cannot look at my Grandview files at all. This is how
> computing
> should work: Data over 7 years old must be discarded!
>
> Subscription software solves this problem elegantly. Imagine your joy when
> you go to
> open an old file, only to find that you no longer have an executable with
> which to
> look at the file. Then you might as well no longer back it up, keeping
> your backups
> smaller.
>
> I just love proprietary subscription software!
>
> SteveT
>
>
>
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