Software Industrial God Complex

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Dear 800-pound-software-gorillas:

The more engineering time you waste binding your products together into confusing suites/packages (adding questionable "value-added" features) & then "protecting" them with anti-user, anti-piracy methods, the lower the overall product quality becomes & the less motivated your former customers are to acquire legitimate copies of the new versions as they're forced to "update" in order to stay relevant.

Yeah, i'm looking at YOU, Adobe. You used to do no wrong. Now you feel & look utterly sleazy... Greedy... Self-trapped.

If you've saturated the market, don't punish your legit customers by ruining the products & people who MADE YOU the success you were. Stop treating customers like beta testers & thieves. You will MAKE them into thieves as they steal your defect-riddled, unfinished product... which you try to sell as a commercial release.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You've almost exceeded even Microsoft. Actually, maybe you have exceeded them.

(It's no just Adobe, but they inspired this opinion piece)