Creative License: Take as much as you want
Adobe’s new Creative Suite is currently advertised with the slogan: Creative License – Take as much as you want. Terms and Conditions which apply when you submit a feature request or a bug report:
You agree that by submitting your Idea, you acknowledge and agree that any such Idea is nonconfidential, and that Adobe has no obligation to return anything submitted, respond to, or confirm receipt of your Idea. You warrant that no other person or corporation has a property interest in the submitted Idea. You understand and acknowledge that Adobe may itself be developing and creating similar Ideas, and/or that Adobe may have received or may someday receive similar Ideas from others, and that existing or planned products and services independently developed without use of your Idea may contain Ideas or concepts similar or identical to those you submit. You acknowledge and agree that your submission shall not preclude Adobe from developing or acquiring such Ideas without obligation to you. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Adobe shall be free to use any Idea that you submit on a perpetual, royalty-free basis, for any purpose whatsoever, including use, modification, display, and distribution, and/or in the development, manufacture, marketing, and maintenance of Adobe products and services without any obligation to you.
2 Comments ↓
1. Juego
Oct 17, 2007 at 8:51 am
Exactly… A total monopolistic rip-off.
I’m glad you’re posting this. I’ve actually filled a bug report a couple days ago because the company I’m working for has bought 5 Adobe CS3 Master Collection and one of the main tool in Premiere is not working properly at all on all 5 installations. Premiere crashes violently if you try to change the font types in the Title Window. But I haven’t got any answer from them yet. Not one.
It’s not the first time I’m filling a bug report and never had any answer. Why would they anyway? Everybody’s buying their tools. Independent reviewers don’t exists. Nobody questions anymore the quality and the necessity of the upgrades. Who cares? Except maybe the open source community. But this community is already on another track.
Well, to end this “frustrated reply” to your excellent post
, I have to say that one of my co-worker spent hours on the phone with some Adobe certified support team in France. They could’nt solve our problem yet. Blaming it on our “too long” font list, or Windows version, or… They even suggested us to download a freeware font manager (not related at all to Adobe) to solve our problem. But it hasn’t.
It’s time to end this monopolistic dictatorship. Thanks to OSP for spreading the word.
2. Grey|Pixel
Jan 8, 2008 at 7:32 am
Am I the only one who feels that the new slogan *deliberately* confuses users into thinking that this has to do with the Creative Commons license.
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