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Subject: Re: [AE] USA and the emerging 'Software Piracy Gap'!!
From: Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:17:16 -0500
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On Aug 24, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> =
wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jim Tierney wrote:
>=20
>>>> I have to say that I think Adobe's method of business with creative =
cloud is the best idea so far. Make the purchase price of your product =
more attainable at a longer stretch profit and more people will be =
inclined to purchase.
>=20
> The biggest issue for Adobe that I can see is their educational CC =
group pricing. I am going to be teaching career and technical education =
classes in Graphic Design and Video Production at our local high school =
and they cannot afford Adobe CC educational pricing in any of its forms. =
So we will be teaching FCPX/Motion instead of Premiere/After Effects. We =
are still on Adobe CS2 (running on Windows 7 in BootCamp because it does =
not run on OSX 7 and to be compatible with a Roland Vinyl Cutter) and =
Photoshop Elements 6. We are not alone by any means.

you know the entire point of CC is that everyone stays current, and gets =
more frequent updates. the entire we're on CS2/3/4 goes out the window =
and everyone is on CC now. in fact I think its a very serious disservice =
to the students to be teaching them FCP X / Motion as the primary apps =
because they just don't have market share. you'd be better off using =
FCP7 because that resembles most other NLE's. I suppose whats worse is =
that the students may well have adobe CC on their own laptops. I've seen =
that a lot. you know those kids are paying perfectly good money to learn =
whats current and relevant and not be using apps that are 6 or 7 years =
old. why not simply require the students to have their own machine with =
CC ? its quite common these days, not different than buying books for a =
class.

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