I asked the question "what can we do to get off of Adobe" and was met with a resounding: "NOTHING" from the marketing team especially. So many of their assets are vendor locked to Adobe products, almost our entire asset library and not to mention the cost of retraining.

Adobe is fully aware they have the industry by the balls. I doubt that this inertia can be curbed no matter what they do, including it seems granting themselves a license to everything you open using their products; which while a direct violation of our partnerships: has been deemed acceptable by my CEO because it's "impossible that nobody else is having this problem" and "we are not the vanguard of defending IP law"...

... If I'm not willing to be the "someone" who stands up, then it's more likely that "no one" will be that "someone" either.