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Whole thread is about repeated tropes of why they hate subscription/Adobe/MS etc. All these comments on alternative s/w for Desktops are funny and typical HN as the issue is with mobile apps and none of the comments showed any pattern with Adobe of poor QA. Assuming, none of the alternatives will ever have a catastrophic bug is also ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Does anybody know a good photo management software that's not Lightroom? I don't actually need to do edits to my photos - I need to manage my photo library. Lightroom is not great at it but is passable - is there anything else? What I'm looking for is software that: - Is fast - Is capable of leaving photos where they are ("import-in-place"). - imports photos from card to NAS, organized by time ( year/month/day) - all…
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Apparently they're doing pretty well. Don't expect them to change course. But this created the opportunity for others. I have migrated to Affinity photo + Capture One. No regrets.
Is Capture One significantly better than editing files just in folders?
It also has 'sessions' which are aimed at individual shoots or projects. I suspect most pros use them instead of catalogues. It's essentially a self-contained directory structure that C1 understands,
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I don't know about software, but pirated games are generally more secure, stable and performant with less spyware than the official games with all the DRM.
Citation needed. I guess you’re probably right but companies are way more accountable than random internet person who modified the dll/binary to work without copy protection.
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> For example, if they added 5.1 support to Premiere, they'd only count it as a "sale" if you actually opened Premiere and used that particular feature. This is a blatant license violation. I wouldn't say 'blatant'. That seems like a reasonable tactic in a vacuum. I guess they could have made it a separate download and install when you click that menu option, but the end result would be the same.
If it's a free download it still might not fly. I suspect they would have to charge a reasonable fee for providing the specific functionality in order for that approach to work (otherwise the only "sale" was that of the original software).
But if you look at what actually happens to the IP, there's a good argument that dolby has no right to any payment from a user that never touches their IP.
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I don't know about software, but pirated games are generally more secure, stable and performant with less spyware than the official games with all the DRM.
Citation needed. I guess you’re probably right but companies are way more accountable than random internet person who modified the dll/binary to work without copy protection.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/crackers-say-denuvo-d...
That's the point. Companies have proved themselves not accountable to their customers.
Apple's 30% pays for strict reviews that should have prevented this...
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The bundles are yearly plans only, but subscriptions to individual apps can be done on a month-to-month basis (try clicking on Photoshop, not "Photography")
That is true for some apps, but not others. Lightroom is not available monthly at all.
This is what Apple’s App Store tells me.
See: imgur.com/a/Gk2S01k
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If it's a free download it still might not fly. I suspect they would have to charge a reasonable fee for providing the specific functionality in order for that approach to work (otherwise the only "sale" was that of the original software).
If you focus specifically on the sale, sure. But if you look at what actually happens to the IP, there's a good argument that dolby has no right to any payment from a user that never touches their IP.