Adobe Screws Over Venezuela

Here's a good reason for avoiding cloud-based and cloud-licensed software as much as possible. Adobe, citing US sanctions, has just cancelled the licensing for all of their products in Venezuela. And they haven't given the users back their money.

Today, citing US sanctions, Adobe terminated every software license in the country of Venezuela. And because Adobe has "pivoted to the cloud," switching its software to "software as a service," that means that all the software that some of the most desperate, hard-hit people in the world paid good money for are out in the cold.

They're not issuing refunds, either.

Adobe isn't noted for their customer-friendly policies and this is a particularly egregious example of how they treat customers. You would think they're big enough to show a little spine too and stand up to inhumane US policies.