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Subscription Software is Abandonware
Dec. 13th, 2018 03:34 pm"Here is a book. You can read it for a month and then a hidden fuse inside will cause it to dissolve. You are forbidden from finding and disabling that fuse in order to keep reading the book longer. It would be both illegal and immoral for you to do so. Also, you can't buy a copy without a fuse."
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At the top of this post I offered a hypothetical quote that is effectively equivalent to what Adobe and other software subscription services are doing. I hope that at least some people reading this will recognize how ridiculous it sounds. I think this decision is long overdue: I will no longer shy away from pirating or cracking modern software that is not available for sale, particularly including software that has only ever been available as a subscription.
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At the top of this post I offered a hypothetical quote that is effectively equivalent to what Adobe and other software subscription services are doing. I hope that at least some people reading this will recognize how ridiculous it sounds. I think this decision is long overdue: I will no longer shy away from pirating or cracking modern software that is not available for sale, particularly including software that has only ever been available as a subscription.
