Adobe panics, knocks off 40% off “All Apps” CC annual package for a limited time

Hi John, I re-read your article…and after doing so, stand by what your wrote and also it confirmed what I wrote about it. 3/4 of your article was about Adobe’s sale on their product, the first little paragraph was about how upset people were with Adobe….to be clear, my point is that Adobe is scamming legit license holders and revoking them to make them purchase a subscription one…this is true and is happening now. I merely put light on this matter and commented on how I think your article looked more like an ad for Adobe rather then what is really going on, I didn’t have to put words in anyone’s mouths, you clearly did that yourself, no need to be upset….its not you scamming people…its Adobe, I just pointed this out as many other here are doing also, what set me apart from them, is I called you out on the article that you didn’t bring any of this out….twitter had a lot of people talking about Adobes scam also…..my life is very happy too by the way…sorry if you feel guilt or what ever it is your feeling because I pointed out how my take on your article read to me as a viewer of it, like I said the first small paragraph spoke of what you think is happening with folks upset with Adobe, the rest (3/4) was on Adobes seemingly great deal…..if one want to purchase Adobe product..they should send you a thank you for letting them know what they most likely should have already knew….anyone looking on the web would see Adobes offer and wouldn’t need to read the 3/4 of your article to have have that information…however thank you for letting us all know….

Be careful. The folks who run this web site like to delete messages from people who disagree with them.

John, you published several paragraphs of accurate information and facts about what Adobe is doing. You did not include sufficient derogatory comments or display the obligatory negative bias. Therefore this is clearly an “advertisement”. The fact that your links are directly to Adobe’s website rather than affiliate links are a clever disguise to obfuscate the nature of this marketing material you posted on behalf of your Adobe overlord.

Shame. Shame on you.

(Your article was fine as written, and its fun to watch butt hurt trolls try to explain their understanding of software licensing laws as being “scams”).

I have always been fascinated by people or bullies, who when finding a person with a different opinion from their own, resort to calling people names. I know, your right bullies have been doing this for years, so I shouldn’t be surprised or fascinated by it. However I am, always! Anyone using a computer knows the difference between a perpetual license and a subscription. Writing that those on twitter don’t know in my opinion is absurd. I purchased illustrator CS6 2015-2016 and used it for years then switched to Affinity Photo and Affinity Design. While I did still use illustrator a small amount of the time, mostly use Affinity programs. This past year Adobe kept asking me to buy subscription, which I did not do. June 3rd (Monday) when I started illustrator CS6, a popup window came up saying my software was trail version. I tried UN-installing and reinstalling it, however when it came to putting the license in the box, it told my it had been revoked. Sure, if a company (Adobe) wants to revoke the license on their software, they have that right. When I wrote Adobe support he asked for and put my license in to check it. He then said it was not a real one and asked where I purchased it…..he said (you guessed it) that company is not on their list (it is still selling Adobe products now). So yeah, Adobe is pulling a scam and a big one. It is revoking perpetual licenses and making you purchase the subscription instead. By the way, I learned a long time ago not to let name calling bullies bully me anymore….not sure why someone feels so threatened by a difference of opinion, but seems bullies do and then call names or worse. I to am done with this advertisement for Adobe….one should not give them anymore thought. Thank you……(I know, you will call names some more uhhhh)

Hi ext237, I think there is a different perspective how we
are looking at the same object from different sides. You see, when on Monday
the 3rd when Adobe revoked my illustrator CS6 legit license and so
kindly offered me 3-months free and also a reduced rate for the first year, I
told them no thank you, right after that I received an email with survey, one
of the questions on it was “ Do you feel Adobe is responsible for your revoked
license? “ I know right, strange question to ask if they really thought mine
wasn’t legit. After I filled that out, I typed into a search engine (can’t
remember if it was google or not) Adobe revoked illustrator CS6, it brought up
a lot of links with people being revoked and one of those links was to here,
that is how I came to be here reading John’s comment about people not
understanding licenses in perpetual or subscription, which to me is still absurd
to think people don’t understand the difference. This site was linked with the
discussion of Adobe revoking licenses, so when I read Johns article, from my
perspective coming here from question I had asked in search engine, John’s
remark was understood different than how you or he was looking at it. No matter how you look at it though, ¾ of it read as an advertisement while the first paragraph was kind of a knock that people didn’t understand licenses. I hold to that still. I am over 65yrs of age, I retired from a supervisor position with an agency that built bridges and roadside structures, never worked a day as I loved that job so much it wasn’t work to me, loved building bridges and other
structures. I wrote a computer program for bridge data collection then also. I write utility software programs now for Windows (use to write utility software for IBM’s OS/2), so I know that Adobe has the right to revoke a license if and whenever they want to…just as I put into my license agreement the same privilege. However, I don’t or wouldn’t do it in the manner that Adobe is doing it, I wouldn’t lie to the users of my software telling them their license and software was gotten by fraudulent means. Then try to soak them for a lot more money. I would feel like I was scamming people, because it would be. The link to this site from search engine is the view from where a lot of us are coming from, that different perspective I mentioned. It would do no good to call the attorney general or contact the FTC, and you should know this, because Adobe has the right to revoke any license they want, EVEN IF IT WERE A SUBSCRIPTION! Wouldn’t people who pay for a subscription say it’s a scam if Adobe canceled them out of the blue…I think so. However, even though they have that right, doesn’t mean people cannot call them out on it, telling them and others such as yourself and John that it is a scam making a person move to a subscription by means of falsely calling your license a fraud. So I stand by what I have written here, and I stand tall as I do, knowing that anybody who has a sense of right and wrong or fairness, they too would call it a scam. Yes, also the article and how it was presented did read like an ad for Adobe, that is the truth…rather if a person agrees or not….from my perspective as explained, most people can see why…. So here I am, telling you how it has worked out for me as well as others posting here, none is so blind then he who cannot see….