" They have the ability to force their customers onto a new business model from the previous business model as a result of that. It is an unfair advantage."

How is this an "It is an unfair advantage"???

I wonder how many of the people who rail

in online forums against the evils of companies like Autodesk

and Adobe have ever had an actual job in a real  U.S./Western business.

Do you people realize that a real business

would never buy& own a $200,000 Digital Printing press

or a fleet of delivery trucks etc. because leasing them is fully deductible as business expense thus reducing their tax liability??

Most serious business owners NEVER purchase their cars

or other office equipment.

they lease them to their incorporated businesses

which gives them the advantage of getting the newest model

every year.

Adobe is the industry standard because their software is Better

and Designed to be used in Professional graphics& image editing environments

The same is true for Autodesk in the area of Movie VFX & Game dev.

All of the people I see, in web forums ,crying about the new subscription based systems of Adobe & Autodesk can never show us any proof that they use these programs to make their primary living in an incorporated business where the software is vital.

Their Shrill opposition is entirely theoretical

and they are upset over "the principle"of the thing.

Yet  their actual lives are not affected in any tangible way by

what Adobe et al is doing.

"ability to lock you out of your IP investments which are infrastructural. Again, some places, this seems to be okay."

Forgive me sir but you get "locked out of your IP investments"

all the time by simple advances in software and hardware.

The examples are to numerous to mention but here is a "teachable moment" for you:
 DAZ GENESIS!!.

By your Logic, any merchant making pre -genesis poser content

has now suffered a "serious business ramification"

by being forced to adopt Daz's business model of content  creation... or

Languish in the wasteland of the non genesis content  market not sure which third party female figure hopeful  will save his little virtual doll clothing& prop business. 

"The US has historically been rather tolerant of that, other places less so. But then, my feeling is that Adobe should NEVER have been able to acquire Macromedia - simply selective products of Macromedia, like Flash (which is what they wanted anyway)."

Why not ????

Show me one case where their was actual Harm to THE GENERAL PUBLIC by Adobe's Aquiring of Flash.

And yes I Understand the need for U.S. Anti trust laws that protect the public from the tyranny of monopolists who could control our fundamental human services Like water,Power etc.

But for all the bloody, online caterwalling about Adobe/flash it turned out that 

the advent of mobile touch screen internet devices made

flash and its "mouse over" based interaction somewhat moot

hence HTML5 etc. 

"Ive always been content to upgrade when an upgrade includes either a feature I need or solves a compatibility problem. My contentment, much like the contentment of other users of mature products, is one of the top reasons why software companies are moving to this new model. When software is first made available and in high demand, you sell a lot of full licenses. Then as the market gets "full" of your offerings, your revenue shifts over to upgrade revenue. But then as the market matures, you end up competing against previous versions of products you've made - in some cases it being self inflicted if you've instead of adding new features to existing products, instead added those features to brand new products. That's where Adobe is. That's where Microsoft is on Windows and Office..

No argument with this.^

which is exactly why I, ( as a freelancer), ran poser 6 for so long

and still run Adobe CS3

After effects CS3

Maxon Cinema4D Studio 11.5

I have already decided not to upgrade my newly purchased

Iclone 5.5  to version 6 as the new bridge to indigo is the only new feature 

and does not interest me as I have my own rendering pipeline in place.

 

  

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