[danuker]

Indeed, companies should tailor their licenses to the purchasing power of their customers, at LEAST at country-level.

Still, I feel like a subscription is a service-as-a-software-substitute [1]. At least when I don't need continuous development.

There are plenty of free and open-source programs. I have gotten by with Gimp for a lot of my needs. There is also Krita and darktable, and even the browser-based miniPaint [2].

[1] - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

[2] - https://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

[radlad]

> There is also Krita and Lightroom, and even the browser-based miniPaint [2].

Lightroom as in Adobe Lightroom?

miniPaint is very impressive, thanks for sharing.

[itcrowd]

Most likely intended DarkTable

[danuker]

Darktable was indeed what I meant. Thanks.

[danuker]

I meant darktable, not Lightroom. Thanks, I changed the comment.

[umvi]

> at LEAST at country-level.

Are you implying it should be even more granular? i.e. People with IP addresses in Hollywood neighborhoods should have to pay $10,000/year for Adobe software but people with IP addresses in Compton neighborhoods should only pay $10/year?

[danuker]

Yes.

But that pricing would be terrible; I am pretty sure the stated numbers are far from maximum total profit - at some point, even Hollywood execs turn down deals.

And number of deals is a factor in total profits (multiplication).

[Tijdreiziger]

> Indeed, companies should tailor their licenses to the purchasing power of their customers, at LEAST at country-level.

The problem then becomes that users in ‘rich’ countries use a VPN to get the ‘poor’ country pricing.

[danuker]

Indeed. If this happens a lot, the optimal prices might get closer together.

But I am pretty sure the total profit will still be greater than in a single-price scenario.