I beg to differ on this, like a junkie to a dealer should, but can't.
Photoshop is the de facto standard application for image processing in preparation to (traditionally pre-press) output, with little or no competition. When the cost of ownership multiplies overnight, people can be threatened in their commercial viability. On e.g. the Luminous Landscape forums an owner of a design studio is confronted by an increase of €6k per year to €26k per year, only due to a policy change by Adobe. And his example is not unique.
The future will tell. Sofar it doesn't look like it. Their stock value lost some 6% in the last week on an increasing NASDAQ, after the announcement, and they've earned the new
#35 most shorted Nasdaq 100 Component status. Adobe Systems (ADBE) pushed the Computer Software & Services industry lower making it the featured
Computer Software & Services laggard last week. Photography related internet fora have been flooded with posts by concerned users of photo-editing software. Adobe has sent executives on travel to appear in talk-shows to control the controversy.
Well CS is no more. Creative Cloud (CC) is the new kid on the block, it's (much) more expensive, and it will potentially not allow to open one's work-in-progress files if they are based on new functionality that supposedly is going to be rolled out more frequently, when the verification of a subscription (for whatever reason) fails.
Bravo for you, and good for your students.
Absolutely, and hopefully well informed.
Which still leaves the question: What is the change you are looking for?
We have a membership with a broad range of capabilities and talents, but clairvoyance seems to be relatively under-represented, artsy fartsy on the other hand thrives at times. All are welcome.
Cheers,
Bart