Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (2019)

2019 article.<p>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19913362" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19913362</a>

I don&#x27;t care much about the Adobe bullshit any more, but after having used Photoshop for almost 20 years, I switched to Affinity last year and I cannot recommend it enough!<p>I use Procreate, Affinity and Figma and all of these tools are cheaper, easier to use, and still support my (often more advanced) use-cases.<p>Same with Lightroom vs. Capture One.<p>PS. If you fell for the same &quot;annual but paid monthly subscription&quot; scam with an early cancellation fee, try changing your payment method to PayPal, and then use it to block the payments.

There&#x27;s no point in posting a 2019 article just to get riled up against Adobe without any updates or more recent developments.<p>If we&#x27;re going to turn on the outrage machine, let&#x27;s at least stick to current news. Not something that happened 4 years ago.

I imagine this is a sign of what&#x27;s coming for everything outside of software as well. Can&#x27;t wait to not find my car, bicycle or fridge one morning, because the model is no-longer supported and they decide to get themselves repossessed and walked away. Or they just brick themselves.

Krita has been a very decent Photoshop replacement for my small needs.

For an old version of photoshop you won&#x27;t get sued for using[1] - it&#x27;s vintage software these days but CS2 is available on archive.org:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Adobe-CS2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Adobe-CS2</a><p>[1]: probably

&gt;“Please be aware that should you continue to use the discontinued version(s), you may be at risk of potential claims of infringement by third parties.”<p>So Adobe was never planning on suing anybody, but any third-party license agreements may have expired. Such as those with Pantone.<p>Why would this get anybody riled up about Adobe? (also the fact that the article is 4 years old...)

I still own the CS6 suite, the last one before Adobe went mad with subscriptions. Even back then they tried to switch CS6 users to CC users by accepting some ridiculous license agreement that would lead to losing access to CS6. Adobe became truly horrible when the current CEO took the reins.

Another reminder that I&#x27;m glad to use Photopea.

I could use Photoshop in my art creation, but I refuse to. Affinity Photo is good enough and doesn&#x27;t cost a lot. I might miss a few features but my life is more pleasant without Adobe.

Is this about old perpetual licences or subscription? Subscription is supposed to work like this, you keep on using it till you pay for it.

When a large software company puts the warning on their cloud software &quot;You Should not use this in production&quot; you become the idiot and fool if you continue to pay to use it and use it. Adobe became irrelevant years ago due to this BS.

Affinity by Serif: clean, very capable and no subscription BS, so far. If you used to like Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks you will be at home with Affinity Designer. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Serif&#x2F;Affinity, just a happy customer.

Anyone know why open source Photoshop replacements dont get traction like Blender has for 3d?<p>Krita is good. Gimp is bad. Nothing seems to be as good as Blender is for 3d, but the problem set is undeniably simpler.

Oh … I have a CD copy of a very early photoshop version for SGI Irix … time to load that up and blog about it ?

One might be forgiven for believing there to be an implicit offer of indemnity for such software products.

Good thing Adobe products are so easy to pirate.

The Pirate Bay