Most of them? If you stop paying for Creative Clouds, your Lightroom database is of no use anymore; you'll probably be able to open photoshop/illustrator files with other apps, but maybe not with all their subtleties.
On the other hand, non-subscription based software was only good as long as they were maintained for your current OS… So I don't care much if my software is subscription based or not, but I care a lot about them saving my data using open standards.
I'm not affiliated with the project; just discovered it by chance this morning and found it deserved to be better known.
So, when I said 'My site will still be online", I meant as a web developper using Polypane, when and if I decide to stop paying the subscription, this will have no impact on the web site I've developped with it.
Subscriptions might be a problem when you risk loosing access to your data (looking at you Adobe), but in this particular case I couldn't see the problem.
It's an economic model that is certainly not for everybody, nor for everything, but for dev tools that help me earn money, I can't see the problem.
And if I stop paying for it tomorrow, and don't have access to it anymore, you know what? My site will still be online.
The rendering engine is Chromium so… that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. At least for this usage: it's a browser for web development, not for everyday use.
- More info on it by its developer here: https://twitter.com/frnsys/status/1523657100714721280
- Mini-review by Molleindustria: https://twitter.com/molleindustria/status/152400849285985484...