When I had to go out to buy licenses a few months ago for an intern at our company and found out that it is no longer possible to buy the regular Adobe licenses for the latest products we solved this by using competitor products and open source projects to give us a patched together set of tools.
The money was not an issue, what was an issue is that I think that tools should not be shoehorned against all logic into a pay-to-play model, they should just work. Imagine your c compiler or your editor failing to work because some third party service is down. To me that is not an option.
I hope Adobe learns their lesson and re-instates the licensing model they used in the past and gets rid of their 'Creative Cloud' nonsense asap.
And if they don't then I hope some competitor will realize this is a huge opportunity and will jump into the gap opened up here.
Adobe is good, but they can be beaten, especially if they shoot themselves in the foot (repeatedly).
The money was not an issue, what was an issue is that I think that tools should not be shoehorned against all logic into a pay-to-play model, they should just work. Imagine your c compiler or your editor failing to work because some third party service is down. To me that is not an option.
I hope Adobe learns their lesson and re-instates the licensing model they used in the past and gets rid of their 'Creative Cloud' nonsense asap.
And if they don't then I hope some competitor will realize this is a huge opportunity and will jump into the gap opened up here.
Adobe is good, but they can be beaten, especially if they shoot themselves in the foot (repeatedly).