On 7/6/2010 11:26 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Sounds a little like ACR except that Adobe doesn't have the excuse of
> obsoleting old stuff for new features. :-)
Well, I know there's a smiley. I don't like Adobe's upgrade pricing policies
any more than anyone else here, maybe less.
And I've said it before. But here I go again, quoting myself:
"Still, as a sometime software developer, and entirely a one man show, so I
know every aspect, I suggest another
perfectly good reason.
There is little more frustrating, when adding/changing functionality, than
dealing with a fixed data file format or data
interface. I can't imagine over all the years of development of ACR/PS that
significant changes to the data/software
interface haven't been needed several times. But then the new PS can't
communicate with the older version of ACR, and
vice versa.
Once you make that change, you can't do backward compatibility without
rewriting all the older versions of either PS or
ACR. And that just makes no economic sense at all. I can't see ANY business
spending lots of time and money to go back
to rewrite old software just so folks don't have to upgrade. "
Repetitive Moose
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