Adobe Licensing for Creative Retirees

[Peter_Adventures]

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.

[kglad]

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

[John T Smith]

https://www.tech-crawl.com/collections/adobe-non-profit-licensing-church-charity
or https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/non-profit.html

[Peter_Adventures]

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]

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.