I will explain better the situation. Sorry, if I was not clear. This is what I think...
I will add quotes:
Let's be clear: do you really mean that you can't afford $10 a month to get you up and running, but you could afford $1000 straight up for the same privilege?
Yes, there's people that can't efford (in Italy) to pay $10 at month. And not only because we are students that don't have a job, but because it's not only 10$, there's many services nowdays and each one ask 10$, 5$, everyone, so this become something really impossible to afford. I can't image if all software houses would ask only subscriptions , we all would have softwares as if we renting for life.....I don't know if is possible a thing like this....
you can't afford $10 a month to get you up and running, but You had $1000 lying around? Because that's what those perpetual licenses cost back in the day (outside the US, where it was 700).
I heard the price of only Photoshop CS6 was less, but in any case, yes, I can save cash from different temporary jobs I find and reach $1000 and purchase a full licence. I prefer this in my case. In Italy it's also hard find job that last, but temporary jobs I could afford to save. But I can't afford to pay every single things for each months without ends.. there's too many things in a months to pay...
"It will take you one hundred months to break even at those numbers. But that alone misses the real point: a perpetual license doesn't come with upgrades. Pretty soon you have to pay all over again! That's when you start to feel locked in. With a subscription, it's all included. All upgrades are free, as they come, forever."
Yes, this is a good solution certainly, but not for everyone. This is good for who have a job or work for a company.
But as single users, the problem is that I don't need upgrades. For the my use of it, it's ok as is it. So, with times, a subscriptions for people that don't need upgrades, it's not possible to afford subscriptions and not needed. It would cost even more than 1000$, in the years. If I purchase 1 time Adobe Photoshop cs6, I can use even for 10 years, without problems. As I know many people have cs6 since 2012 or 2013 and still they use it. I read comments, that people use CS6 without problems , still today. No upgrades , no other new versions. The upgrades are good for companies, that's good for them. They can afford it.
Unfortunately, we have to pay a lot of things for months, and if the services would still increase like this, we could not afford anythings.. this worried me for how things are going with techology, lately...also mobiles subscriptions, everything have subscriptions... clearly , with times, this will be a great problem for many people... I think... (if they are not in a company , I mean)...for who have a job for stable time, I guess is ok, but really, what would happens if all the things we use, will follow the example, and ask for subscriptions everything?
Anyway. CS6 is ten years old and not legally available anywhere, in any form or shape. If you find one, it will be pirated. Not probably, but with dead certainty.
I wonder what if there's people that would sell their old software cs versions that they don't use anymore? If they sell, I guess it's original 100% it looks that the Italian law, that explain something about resale:
The judgment of the Court of Justice of 3 July 2012, c-128/11 legitimizes the sale of refurbished software.
European Court of Justice, judgment of 3 July 2012, case C-128/11
Software manufacturers cannot defend themselves against the resale of used software. The exclusive right to distribute the copy of the program ends with the first sale. In this judgment, the Court states that the principle of exhaustion of the distribution right applies not only when copies of the software are sold on data carriers, but also when they are distributed via downloads from the company's website.
Judgment of 2013 of the Federal Court of Justice of 17.7.2013, Az. I ZR 129/08
With its 2013 decision, BGH confirmed that trading with used software licenses is legal. About a year after the European Court of Justice, BGH also dealt with the legal situation of the licensed trade in used software. It confirmed the ECJ decision in its entirety.
Anyway, I think there's 2 different type of clients, and I wish there was a better solutions for everyone of us. At least, to sells special offers for 1 full time purchase, with a special price for the old versions like /CS5 or CS6).
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