License Pricing: Perpetual or Subscription?

[nemophoto]

From Adobe's website.

[digitaldog]

From Adobe's website.

From Adobe's website:
https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/cancel-subscription.html#:~:text=Lightroom%20Classic%20images&text=You%20can%20continue%20to%20import,available%20after%20your%20membership%20ends.
What happens when I cancel my Creative Cloud subscription?
You can continue to access all your photos on your local hard drive through Lightroom for the desktop. You can continue to import and organize photos and output your edited photos through Export, Publish, Print, Web, or Slideshow.

[UnfamiliarLight]

Whats sad is those who presumably have no experience in creating or providing software, thinking they own something they don't and disagreeing with those that have the experience.

LOL OK. Maybe I shouldn't have poked you with the hash tag - sorry.

Like I said we knew what he meant (those of us that have experience developing and delivering software and those that don't).

[digitaldog]

Like I said we knew what he meant (those of us that have experience developing and delivering software and those that don't).

We?
I know the facts, and I've provided them, and I'm a software producer for the PS ecosystem.
We don't own the software: full stop.
As the Chinese proverb says: "The first step towards genius is calling things by their proper name."

[IanSeward]

No, you never owned it. You purchased a license to use the software (which could be revoked). It was all spelled out in the EULA, even the very old EULA from Photoshop.

If you own a perpetual licence then you get to keep it when you change to subscription. Obviously edits done in later software would not be compatible with the old version.

If you have subscribed for several years then C1 provide an "off ramp" if you want to revert back to perpetual licence. Essentially you can purchase a perpetual licence for a reducing amount of money, depending on how many years you have subscribed. When you have subscribed for 5 years you get a free perpetual licence.

[digitaldog]

If you own a perpetual licence then you get to keep it when you change to subscription.

If and until the license is revoked, as is possible with many products, including the Adobe suite, which used activation every time the software was used (and yes, this includes the nonsubscription perpetual version like  CS2 or earlier). Again, all spelled out in the EULA. Adobe (and others) have the ability to prevent the perpetual software from being used IF the end user breaks the EULA. So no, you have access to the license, you don't own it or the software.