Actually, Adobe is one of the last holdouts to this. Everyone else already defaults to a one-version upgrade or you pay full price policy. This is one of the things that makes,... made .... Adobe so much better to deal with.

Autodesk products; Maya, 3DSMAX, Mudbox, Softimage to name a few is helping to push the industry towards "The Cloud" in an effort to squash Piracy of their products. I can hardly stand the thought of the cloud, because you will never own a physical or downloaded copy ever again. You will get a license and a Cookie to put on your computer so you can log in and do your work, all the while your time used, time of day, and everything you do is logged and stored on a distant server that yu cannot access therefore you will never really own your own work ever again.

All that being said because Adobe mentioned the cloud in their statement #P

The end of software as we know it is not far off, folks!!!

 

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!