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Just a few days earlier, his father had phoned from Shanghai and joked that his son should park his new Mercedes at the diplomatic compound to keep it safe.
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Image copyright SASA STANKOVIC/EPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Image caption Embassy workers escaped through windows after the strikes Across town, Shen Hong, a well-connected Chinese businessman, was getting word that the embassy had been hit.

They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans. The US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorisation and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. All five bombs had hit the embassy, 100 metres away. All the shutters on the block were ripped off by the blast, it broke all the windows.” “The force of the first bomb lifted us off the ground and we fell… Then one after the other – bam, bam, bam. The doors shattered, spraying glass at them. All Vlada heard at first was the whoosh of an incoming missile. They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. Being there would surely protect them.īut as Vlada and his son approached the glass doors of their building in the dark, US B-2 stealth warplanes were in the skies above Belgrade. They were lucky, some thought, to live just next to the Chinese embassy – an important diplomatic mission. Vlada’s family had spent many nights in recent weeks huddled with others in the basement of their apartment building as air raid sirens blared outside, praying that an errant missile wouldn’t strike their homes. It was now and the US-dominated air campaign was only growing more intense. Nato, the world’s most powerful military alliance, had been pummelling Yugoslavia from the skies since late March to try to bring a halt to atrocities committed by President Slobodan Milosevic’s forces against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. The power grid was down and he wanted to get home. He had taken his 20-year-old son out that evening but bombs had started to fall across the Yugoslav capital. It was close to midnight and Vlada, a Serbian engineer, was speeding towards his apartment in Belgrade. A Chief Financial Officer once told me that Wall Street prefers that companies have subscription pricing, because it means a more predictable stream of future earnings.Image copyright SASA STANKOVIC/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Honestly I don't see this issue as one of "evil Adobe." If anything works us up, it should be the discontinuance of perpetual licenses for LR, but that's part of a larger industry trend away from one-time purchases and towards monthly or yearly subscriptions. I can easily imagine an engineer identifying the need for the DLL, and a purchasing agent trying to minimize costs, so the time limit was put into place.
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Also that person may have naively assumed that all customers would upgrade to the latest LR version. I think people read far too much into the "perpetual".Ĭlick to expand.If Adobe did indeed ignore the time limit on a licensed DLL, it could easily have been a "low level" decision by someone who had (1) no intention to do harm to customers and (2) was thinking short-term, and (3) unaware of the long-term consequences. not that different, as they exist in an economic framework.
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I do realize software is a bit different but. You are making a bet when you buy anything like that, that it will last long enough that it was more cost effective than buying it with a support contract.
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I have the right to use my TV forever I do no expect it to keep working forever. It doesn't work for anything else in life - things break. I think the whole concept that you can buy something and without paying for support or subscription use it forever is flawed. And honestly if Adobe did not realize it, I am not sure that is any excuse. Has anyone seen an acknowledgement from Adobe there was a time bomb in it? Now that's very different I think.
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But frankly I think it is wrong to assume because you have a perpetual license that Adobe owes people updates to keep it running, for example if Google changes something in maps, or Microsoft or Apple change things that break it. It will be interesting if Adobe actually embedded a time bomb in the version whether on purpose or not (i.e.

Click to expand.I think people read far too much into the "perpetual".
