Just need to vent...

It's not even so much the $ that makes the difference for me. I'd be willing now and then to pay for commercial software, if they would take my money and hand me the software. If I didn't know full well that by paying them for it I am volunteering for the kind of headaches Mendel is having.

 

The other Oddity about older Photoshop/ adobe acrobat versions is that they no longer support it anyway.

 

That's sort of my point. I kind of doubt that anybody bothered to check whether these old versions would be swept up in a remote shutdown, because it's old and abandoned.

I mean think about it, if the last meaningful revenue you got from your customer was ...13 years ago? are they still really a customer you need to care about? Of course, they need to honor the license they wrote, but that's all.

 

Living overseas may have oddly different foods but it’s what comes in or on the foods that can be a real local experience.

 

I understand both sides of this issue, actually.

I loathe Adobe like a Southern Baptist preacher hates rowdy bars.
This comes from the fact that I was forced to use FrameMaker about 30 years ago on a gubmint project.
It was eye-wateringly expensive and about as intuitive as CalvinBall AND I knew when the project sun-settled that I would retain nothing useful from having slogged my way through it except for the paychecks.

BUT....as life itself should have its seasons software product support should have expiration dates.

One of the things that I hate to love about Apple is that they don't victimize their customers by forcing them to buy a 'new and improved' OS every five years or so.
They do that with their hardware if you want a specific single feature or the latest gigapixel camera, but they're also happy to sell their "SE" flavors to the unwashed masses and keep them working for 7-8 years for for their phones which is about as long as one would expect them to remain technologically viable.

There are about a zillion fairly capable graphic editors in the Linux world but for those that are stuck in a walled-off garden:
Best free Photoshop alternatives for Mac