“We have recently discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications and and a result, under the terms of our agreement, you are no longer licensed to use them,” Adobe said in the email. “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.” Users were less than enthusiastic about the sudden restrictions.
“As we had shared in June, Pantone decided to change its business model. Some of the Pantone Color Books that are pre-loaded in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign were phased-out from future software updates in August 2022,” said Ashley Still, senior vice president of digital media marketing, strategy, and global partnerships at Adobe in a statement to The Verge. “To access the complete set of Pantone Color Books, Pantone now requires customers to purchase a premium license through Pantone Connect and install a plug-in using Adobe Exchange.”
If you continue to use Pantone colors that were available in an older version of photoshop, a third party (Pantone) may sue you - not Adobe suing you.
So, Adobe will not anymore sue users for using old versions? This is not relevant anymore? Can you provide a link that shows that Adobe retracted of this practice?
Despite being 4 years old, this is news to me today. So thanks OP for posting it, because some of us don't see everything on the internet on day one, like gammalost here.
Comments
There's no point in posting a 2019 article just to get riled up against Adobe without any updates or more recent developments.
If we're going to turn on the outrage machine, let's at least stick to current news. Not something that happened 4 years ago.
I didn't know, and is still relevant so is good news to me.
We can't rearsh enough how evil Adobe practices are, they are so evil it is so hard to grasp that even if we knew we need regular remindes.
Adobe might be above Microsoft level. See, people have all forgotten about or don't know.
Anyone please make MS court cases from the 2000s reach the top 50 list. That would be news for the majority of readers, even hackernews' community.
Note the third parties part there.
For example, Adobe's previous license for Pantone colors expired last year ( https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1/23434305/adobe-pantone-su... ).
If you continue to use Pantone colors that were available in an older version of photoshop, a third party (Pantone) may sue you - not Adobe suing you.
So, Adobe will not anymore sue users for using old versions? This is not relevant anymore? Can you provide a link that shows that Adobe retracted of this practice?
Well for starter it isn't adobe threatening to sue. It's a warning about third parties.
And have you heard of this happening in the last four years? I haven't at least.
Despite being 4 years old, this is news to me today. So thanks OP for posting it, because some of us don't see everything on the internet on day one, like gammalost here.
When did I claim that I see everything or that it wasn't new to someone, odd response.
I just saw it as a non-issue as Adobe isn't threatening to sue anyone