Adobe is awesome.
Adobe is irritating
Adobe is difficult
I have used Adobe since version 2 Photoshop. Version 88 Illustrator Version 1 (pre Adobe) Pagemaker
I still use it but I am often questioning why.
Why can't InDesign "Save As" a Previous version that is more than one generation earlier?
Why can't CS4 still be purchased easily when CS6 is out (so multiple users can share the same files?)
Why can't Lightroom 4 work on a XP system?
Why can't Lightroom run on MySQL and be multi user?
Why can Lightroom run on SQLLite database and not be OpenSource?
Why can't...
Why can't someone come up with a reasonable set of alternatives?
I think the answer to that one is that Adobe will simply buy them out and put them out of business as they did with Macromedia. Whatever happened to Corel? Where is OpenStudio when we have OpenOffice available?
Adobe has been and is a great company. They were there at the outset making desktop publishing possible. But they did not invent computers, data bits, networks. Their work also comes from the work of others.
I do admire that they put CS2 out on a somewhat open basis when CS1 and CS2 hit the doldrums. You can do quite a lot with it and it is nice not chacing your license chain around on the old computers you just want to have packed up like a file cabinet.
But someone needs to tie and OpenStudio together. Lets work on that.
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