[mcguire]

The problem with this: updates. You buy a version. They fix the bugs you report and release a new version. Do you pay full price for it? No, it's just an update. You'll pay a reduced upgrade price, but you want it for free. Your price probably doesn't pay for ongoing upgrades and might not pay for the updates. So no one is paying for updates. Every new version has to be sufficiently improved to get everyone to buy a new copy. Or the company could release a version and coast on it until revenue stops coming in.

Renting software is ridiculous, but at least the incentives are kind of pointed in the right direction.

[dredmorbius]

Progressive taxation is rents scaled to means.

[esperent]

Photoshop is extremely stable software. Other than a couple of new features and UI changes, there's not much difference between Photoshop now and ten years ago.

[tonyedgecombe]

That wasn't the case before Adobe switched to subscriptions. Just look at all the shit they poured into Acrobat to keep selling upgrades.

[patmorgan23]

Easy solution you either get A) all minor updates untill the next major version or B) free minor updates for X years.