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I dont want to pay a monthly fee. Quite honestly I dont need Adobe they only provide a 'software of convenience'. I have a legal license for Adobe CS6 and Lightroom 5 but I dont intend to upgrade them to CC, this can only be seen as a revenue loss.
In the last ten years I have contacted Adobe and posted on their and other forums that ACR should be unbundles from Photoshop and latterly also Lightroom.
If ACR was a charged software it could be sold as 'spot 'upgrades for individual cameras or with a need to upgrade continuously (I prefer the former over the latter).
If a large organisation does not listen to its customers it will wither and die.
Adobe has a huge money pot from corporate sales so Yes it can survive for many years but if it doesnt listen then slowly it will wither and eventually it will become a Corel. We know very well what Corel does to software that it purchases.
I am confident that if Adobe ceased to exist tomorrow that I would not significantly miss their departure as I can find ways to work with CS6 and LR5.3 and other software so that my images can still be managed and printed for the rest of my lifetime. The new workflow will be a little more complex but the quality will be unchanged and the cost will be minimal.
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