I agree with you completely.
To everyone who sees the truth in this and doesn't like what Adobe is doing:
1. Are you using Linux right now?
2. If you're not using Linux, why not? It respects your freedom. The abuse of, and disregard for, your freedom is what angers you about what Adobe is doing right?
3. If you don't care about the stars-and-stripes freedom thing then do you care about technological progress? It seems to me that open source software-- at least open source infrastructure like operating systems, standards, and libraries-- is a better and faster road to progress. Why? First, because Microsoft or Apple can only hire so many programmers so ultimately they can't beat an entire world of people working on the same thing. Second, because if some closed-source shop, like Oracle or Sun or Microsoft, goes away then frequently so does their source code and all the progress that it represents.
4. If you don't care about any of the above, then do you care about money out of your pocket? Linux costs nothing for you. It's free. It's not crappy either, it's actually pretty good if you're using a consumer-targeted distro like Ubuntu or Mint. With Steam running on Linux now you can even play mainstream games.
Use Linux, guys. Most of you have probably at least tried it. Many of you will flame me for saying this. But I don't say this to be a troll, I don't want anyone to think I'm being passive-aggressive and trying to bring up a very old and tired subject. I just think that everyone's probably angry at the abuse and sees where companies like Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple are trying to take us. Yet very few people are voting with their feet on this one.
Please, just try it if you haven't already, you might like it. You might try it and something breaks or it gets frustrating or doesn't work like you expect or is missing some program that you can't live without...OK, that's fine, nobody's twisting your arm. But for the vast majority of you out there I believe you really could get along just fine with it. And by using it you're lending your support to progress; you're lending your support, a grain of rice, to the cause of freedom yours and mine.