Be greeted comrads!
And sorry to interrupt the digitaldog-Slobodan-amolitor love affair.
Private initiative is good. Preserving the fundamental right to own private property is as well.
Kapitalism is good too - but in a civilized version: fair trade.
Competition is not only good but necessary.
"Lefts" and "rights" ... What are you talking about? The western world is ruled by one thing: money.
Wings in political sense is something you learned about in school to keep your thinking aligned. Among other basic learning, we were told, that democracy is our way.
Since when? Most so-called democracies today have turned into a capitalized pseudo pluralistic model where your vote can be placed on different parties with exactly the same effect as if there existed only one party. Beware of the political buzz words that have only one purpose - to make you act properly in the super capitalized operating system called "democracy".
There are you (us) and the growing monopolies. That's the reality.
Those of you living in the US should know. The Federal Banking System is maybe the ultimate monopoly. In 1913 a few forward looking bankers grabbed the exclusive right to issue money on behalf of the American nation. Combined with the fractional banking system of today, it gives you the model of evil private capitalism. If you don't believe me, just take a look at this counter:
www.usdebtclock.orgPrivate and untouchable! - for we have all learned to support private initiative and capitalism to stay independent and happy.
The joke is, that we are only free and happy to pay.
The money paid to honour outrageous interests is (privately) send to the European Union and to China where it will serve the forward looking guys to gain further control and profit.
Still love the model?
This example should be sufficient to warn anybody about the risk of one dominant operator on the market, not moderated by competition.
The cloud smartness is just another step on this path. It's a system that is invisibly bloodletting your account, silently and pleasant reducing your ability to stay in control. The fantastic marketing and impressive dressing let you believe, that its worth your money. If you just work a bit harder, you will finally prosper.
Adobe has not reached the top of the Olympus yet, and you should not let them.
This Adobe problem is of course an "innocent" part of the total scam. Adobe is not a monster - yet. And we should all prevent it to turn into one. "Fed" should be the constant reminder of what free capitalism ultimately will lead to. Cloud will efficiently take over control. It makes you dependent of (in this case) Adobe and the Internet, which in my opinion is worse than me (you) in control and doing business dependent of as few unknown factors as possible. Were we promised a prize? Yes, but we were given no choice. Now everyone with their eyes open can see, that the prize was taken by Adobe exclusively.