"pyotr filipivich" wrote

| The problem with something like Adobe CS is that
| they know buying makes most sense for their customers.
| It takes months just to learn how to use it, so if you
| want it you probably want to own a copy. But that
| option makes the least money for them. So they don't
| allow an option. You can't decide which is best for
| your needs. You can only rent.
|
| Intuit did that with their Quicken accounting package back in
| 2005. Unless I updated the software, I could not even get my bank
| data loaded. I decided then and there, that as far as Quicken was
| concerned, nothing was better. And for the next six years, I used
| nothing.
|

Yikes. You mean they actually broke the existing
software you had bought? How was that possible?
You can't buy Photoshop today, but as far as
I know, no one has claimed that Adobe hacked in
and broke their existing copy of Photoshop.