If you're not here to offer constructive advice or ask a question related to CS6 usage on macOS Sierra, then you shouldn't be commenting in this thread. We don't have to justify our reasons for choosing not to switch to the new subscription style. This thread could be very useful to all those waiting to upgrade to Sierra based on CS6 compatibility (myself included), so please don't hijack it just to throw your opinion in our faces.
I'm sorry, subscription doesn't work for everyone, every business, every workflow, etc.
I've worked in the printing industry since 1997 and have computers older than you likely are. One of my machines dates back to 1987, another 1993, another 1999; all functional all have different OS', and different software. The oldest machine runs plates for our press. That's it, it does nothing else. Others run pagemaker, quark xpress 3, the earliest version of extended suitcase, the 99/G-5 machine runs a dual OS. 9/10. Running quark 4/ pagemaker, illustrator 5 (I believe it is) photoshop 6 (I may have the two swapped), then on OS X on the same machine quark 6, Adobe cs2, pagemaker (first OS X version before they combined it and indesign to one program), freehand mx, and a newer version of extesis suitcase. Then I've got newer machines ranging from 2003 to my newest of 2016, each has a rhyme and reason. But there is no reason to pay a monthly subscription when cs4 works just fine, why fix what ain't broke? It would cost millions of dollars to rework our workflow; plus the cost of updating all the client work to the newest software, if they are not willing to pay for it, we certainly are not doing it free.
You are thinking about it solely from either (a) freelancers point of view or (b) large company who can afford to make these type of huge changes without affecting their bottom line or having or having to lay off employees, or worse hire employees for a short term project to only be laid off in a year, when the system is so much more efficient 5 -additional employees have to go with them.
I work for one of the few small businesses who would give the shirt off their own backs before laying off an employee, because they actually care that we have families; lives; mortgages; and know that most of us are one paycheck from being homeless.
So yes, there are good reasons for some to know if CS3, CS4 or even CS2 are compatible.
[doublepost=1476784245][/doublepost]We even have some clients whose art is not in a computer at all, their type is done by a traditional "typesetter" using lead type.
We have a windmill press, 4 Heidelberg letterpresses, then several offset presses a 1/c, 2//c, 4,/c and 7/c.
Some of the art I have dates back to 1937, it was hand drawn by the (2) owners great grandfather, type was was then set by their grandmother, and it went to print (by their grandfather). It was a 3 person shop then.
The clients have the same theory we do, if it's not broken, why fix it?, so why put the art in the computer when we have the original films? Yes we've archived the film by scanning the original to a computer copy, but no matter what, you cannot achieve that same hand drawn look from a computer generated version - even using the original films as a base to copy from. Same with lead type, you cannot produce the same look on a digital or offset press that you can from a letter press.
There is a craft that is completely under appreciated and taken for granted since every third grader and sally home maker can buy photoshop now.
I spent thousands on my software when I was in school. Subscriptions are just a way to continue getting more more more money, you pay 100x what you paid for the software with a one time payment. It's like always renting an apartment or leasing a car you'll never own it.
