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June 11, 2025
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Adobe Licensing for Creative Retirees

  • June 11, 2025
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Dear Adobe, have you ever considered how freelance creative professionals can continue to support your software after they retire? Without an income from creative work the license model sucks! I have written ablog post about it here: https://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/2025/06/11/adobes-creative-cloud-licensing-model-sucks/ So my idea is qimple, offer a not-for-profit (i.e. free) license to creative retirees who have n-years of continuous CC licensing (i.e. loyalty) demonstrated in their Adobe account.

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Participant
June 11, 2025

You are missing my point entirely! I am not asking about not-for-profit licenses. I am suggesting that Adobe recognise that creative professionals eventually retire! And at that point they may not be able to afford or justify license fees. So, shouldn't Adobe provide a way for long-term loyal users to continue to use certain applications? Especially to recognise that those long-term users will have massive libraries of assets that they will not be able to access without licenses! This is a selling point for new users coming in to the licensed Adobe userbase; they can gain comfort that when they retire certain applications will not be closed off to them rendering their massive libraries of photos (or whatever) inaccessible...

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 11, 2025

we got it. there's nothing more to say about your "point".  it's been "suggested" repeatedly over the years and adobe's response speaks for itself.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 11, 2025

adobe does offer non-profit licenses, but they are not free.