[PLUG-TALK] Adobe ends perpetual licenses

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 05/12/2013 08:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>
>> Microsoft seems to have gotten away with almost the same thing.
> Denis,
>
>     Microsoft has cared only for itself for more than 30 years. When I ran
> IBM's PC/DOS 6.0 I was not able to run a number of proprietary applications
> because the signature was not Microsoft's. Similarly, I could not upgrade
> Win3.0 to 3.1 because Microsoft would not work with anyone else's DOS. They
> kept buying companies with better technologies just to remove the threat to
> themselves.

Similarly, AutoCAD bought Generic CADD to be their entry level offering. 
Then they discovered that Generic CADD had features not available in 
their higher end products. Their solution was to remove those features 
from whatever it was they called Generic CADD. Sigh.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens