Camera Raw support

One of these days, I'm going to sit down and try to figure out why all these people who bought CS6 six years ago, six major versions back, feel they deserve to be kept up to date for free.

But not today.

Adobe have to go out and buy each camera as it comes on the market, and a team then spends weeks reverse engineering how to read the RAW format. Not too difficult, but who is going to pay if this is free?

As a photographer, will you rework a major photo project after 5 years because the client has changed their requirements - and will you charge them for this?

CS6 was supported for five years from its initial release, like most Adobe products. So now support is finished. For some reason, all the work developers put into supporting new systems and devices is something many people expect to be given away free. But this amounts to subsidising the camera makers, and Apple and Microsoft. Perhaps you think these poor companies should be subsidised; personally I don't. Where does the expectation of "lifetime support" come from, you don't get it with other products...?