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The Other Way To Fight Software Rental (hackaday.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I've never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adobe succeeded with professionals. The problem is, it's a de facto industry standard. If you're not using Adobe, you're cut off from jobs, clients, work, because everyone uses Adobe. So you're forced to pay in perpetuity even if you don't want to.

Worse, if you're a teacher, what are you supposed to teach? Well you teach Adobe, because that makes the most sense, and so you sentence your students to decades of payments to a private company.

Now multiply it all those other subscriptions. Speaking of which, how is that Pantone subscription? You can't even open files properly now.

If you cancel Netflix, you just lose some entertainment. If you're subbed to Adobe and cancel, it, you can't do anything with your files. So Adobe not only owns their software, but your work as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you're subbed to Adobe and cancel, it, you can't do anything with your files. So Adobe not only owns their software, but your work as well.

You know other programs can open PSD files, right?