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Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years (petapixel.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses — the user buys the software and then owns it indefinitely — this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"It should be forbidden to pay once and own a thing forever"

Nice try, subscription salesman.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It should be

Strawman argument. I didn't write it you sneaky b...rd. I wrote marketing perpetual licenses which in most cases do include "perpetual updates". Still nobody has proved me othetwise by showing EULAs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Multiple people have explained it to you. No one ever made any claims about updates.