{"id":3693,"date":"2018-01-23T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:26:00","slug":"ask-slashdot-what-is-your-view-on-forced-subscription-only-software-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/01\/23\/ask-slashdot-what-is-your-view-on-forced-subscription-only-software-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? – Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? – Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A perfect chance to switch to software Libero<\/em> aka free-as-in-freedom software.<\/p>\n

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All used to be well in the world of Digital Content Creation (DCC) until two very major DCC software makers — Adobe and Autodesk — decided to force a monthly subscription model on pretty much every software package they make to please Wall Street investors. Important 2D and 3D DCC software like Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign, 3DMax, Maya, and Mudbox is now only available to “rent” from these companies. You simply cannot buy a perpetual license or boxed copy for this software at all anymore, and what makes matters worse is that if you stop paying your subscription, the software locks itself down, leaving you unable to open even old files you created with the software for later review. Also annoying is that subscription software constantly performs “license validity” checks over the internet (subscription software cannot be run offline for any great length of time, or on an air-gapped PC) and the software is increasingly tied into various cloud services these companies have set up. The DCC companies want you to save your — potentially confidential — project files on their servers, not on your own hard disk.<\/i><\/p>\n

There are millions of DCC professionals around the world who’d love to be able to buy a normal, perpetual, offline-use capable license for these software tools. That is no longer possible. Adobe and Autodesk no longer provide that. What is your view on this “forced subscription” model? What would happen if all the major commercial software developers forced this model on everyone simultaneously? What if the whole idea of being able to “purchase” a perpetual license for ANY commercial software went away completely, and it was subscription only from that point on?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? – Slashdot A perfect chance to switch to software Libero aka free-as-in-freedom software.<\/p>\n

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