No, all they have to do is turn it up to '11'.

Funny. That's exactly what TFA said.

It's almost as if you plagiarized it.

Cool. A time traveler. What year are you from?

I'm pretty sure that my programs are out to get me.

Sounds like grad school to me.

You are so not invited to my party.

Oh calm down. You can always buy a two year old Mac Book Pro for a pretty reasonable price and run the entire Creative Suite on it no problemo. Yes, it's a bit bloated** (and what isn't) but disk space isn't exactly expensive these days. CS, at least on OS X, has been very stable of late. Hardly perfect, but nothing much is these days.

I doubt Adobe will ever move over to Linux, just because it is too small a market and too fragmented. If they do, they are liable to price it up to big iron levels as many of the ** really big ** CG / graphic arts companies are running some very high end software on Linux. Don't expect Photoshop for Ubuntu to ever come along....

(**Just did a quick check - on a Mac Pro, running ALL my applications including the full Creative Suite with several levels of programs (ie, Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CS and Photoshop CC 2014), Modo, Maya and bog knows what all, I'm using 65 GB of space. A drop in the proverbial bucket - I could put it all on an SD card should I desire.)

And so it will be again.

If there is a market for in perpetuity licenses that is not supported by the big guys, then the new little guys will work out of their local coffee shop (garages having long been turned into apartments for additional rent money) and create what needs to be created.

The cycle of life will continue.

Much of the subscription model depends on the details. Adobe got hammered because, originally, they put Photoshop in with everything else. A bit later, they realized there was a significant user base that wasn't interested in video or graphic arts and they created a Photoshop / Lightroom bundle for a pretty reasonable price. Of course, Adobe had always done that with the various disk collections so it was puzzling that they didn't start out very nuanced in the subscription world.

Windows for $10 / year / computer for home use probably would be popular if it 1) had some obvious value added features (antivirus, clip art, drive space) and would not totally dissolve if you didn't pay the price. Perhaps you would have performance limits or some other bit of persuasion.

And, of course, most of us would prefer if Microsoft (and Adobe for that matter) would sell you in perpetuity licenses for those few people that plan on taking their laptops to Central Nowhereastan for the next ten years, cut off from the rest of the world. Or just never left their basement.

This. And I'm not even a MS guy primarily. Especially for a small business / small developer, the price was chump change and the benefits enormous - to both the end user and MS. It's a bit like the recent Adobe subscription model - at a certain level, basically even low level professional, it's a great deal. For an individual / hobbyist, not so much. Hell, MS could have made several tiers in the system (again, much like Adobe is doing now) to keep different groups of people on board.

Perhaps some MBA will think of this and, once again, history will repeat itself.

Sounds similar to PETA enthusiasts. You sure you didn't copy somebody's bio?

'Flying high' could be interpreted in various ways.

quadrillion = 1E15.

That makes it easier.

It's a pretty good first approximation ....

Group hug!