[scribus] Adobe ends perpetual licenses

[Gregory Pittman]

On 05/09/2013 06:42 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>> On 05/09/2013 05:43 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
>> As I understand it, Adobe will still sell software, but without updates, as
>> an alternative to this subscription plan
> No, they won't. It's all just subscriptions now.
>
>
Except in the real world:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/08/Adobe-photoshop-cc

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      What happens to ACR support for CS6?

As Tom Hogarty states on Adobe's Lightroom blog 
<http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/05/adobe-camera-raw-8-support-for-photoshop-cc-and-photoshop-cs6.html>, 
CS6 users will gain the camera compatibility updates set to arrive on 
June 17 in ACR 8. These updates, however, will /not/ include any of the 
new features seen in the Photoshop CC demo or Lightroom 5 Beta release, 
such as the Upright tool, Advanced Healing Brush or Radial Gradient 
Filter. Adobe is not providing a timeline for how long new camera 
support will continue for the ACR version of Photoshop CS6.


      Can I still buy Lightroom?

Yes. Lightroom, while available as part of the Creative Cloud bundle, 
can still be purchased as a standalone piece of software at $149 for new 
users and $79 for owners of any previous version. Adobe Acrobat can be 
purchased as a standalone title as well.


      Can I still buy Photoshop CS6?

Photoshop CS6 is still currently available for a downloadable purchase 
here 
<http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html?start=20> 
on Adobe's site.

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It isn't like they can make all of their copies of CS6 disappear or 
destroy them, so they will be out there, and still working, and still 
able to be purchased.

I also think this Q&A is notable:

*/Were you expecting such a negative response from the photographic 
community?/*

We expected a higher degree of this type of reaction from the hobbyist 
photographic community because currently there's not a lot of 
photography-specific value in our subscription products.

"hobbyist", of course, is also the long-time appellation for the Linux 
community, so they are drawing a line between the real professionals out 
there and the casual hobbyist users.

Greg
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