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Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by ratg13 »

d3nj4l wrote: post #181
yuchi wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UPDATE n. 2: Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) has addressed these kind of concerns on their public disclore of the fact: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/ Citing him: > Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani. As others have said, there’s really a missing OSS version out there that can compete feature-by-feat…

Every time one of these "statements" happens I'm reminded of what Palmer Luckey said about Oculus when Facebook bought them, or what Jan Koum said about WhatsApp. How long before Dylan leaves to "spend time with family"?

Exactly, he is contractually obligated to keep the status quo for the time being.

After some years and the clauses have lapsed and Adobe have done what they always do, the criticism will come.

I'm sure he knows it as well, but hundreds of millions of dollars will shut anyone up for a period of time.

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Post by rchaud »

gaws wrote: post #341
rchaud wrote: post #266

For those interested in non-subscription, one-time payment alternatives, there are a few options: 1. Figma replacement - Sketch (1yr fee, updates optional, MacOS only) 2. Adobe Photoshop - Affinity Photo (Win/Mac) 3. Adobe Illustrator - Affinity Designer (Win/Mac) 4. Adobe InDesign - Affinity Publisher (Win/Mac) (I use this to create my indie magazine) 5. Adobe Animate - Tumult Hype (closest thing to Flash that we ha…

Don't forget alternatives for GNU/Linux, too.

I only know about GIMP and Inkscape for Linux, and I wouldn't recommend them for work-related use. As free tools go however, they are both quite powerful and feature-filled. Just harder to use and can crash unexpectedly, which is why I didn't include them.

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Post by dbbk »

baggiponte wrote: post #72
pembrook wrote: post #22

I’d put the odds at about 95% that Adobe will ruin Figma with bloat, 14 different “Creative Cloud” background processes, and hostile pricing models within 5 years. This is huge news for Sketch. However, to be honest, this is the type of acquisition that should be blocked IMO. Adobe is literally acquiring a direct competitor here. To me the consumer harm is pretty clear. Instead of a more competent org (Figma) growing…

Totally agree I don’t get why antitrust gave the okay to this…

They haven't decided anything yet

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Post by rchaud »

tgv wrote: post #367
rchaud wrote: post #280

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See, if this was local software that you could buy once and keep forever, an event like this would not have felt so full of foreboding. On cloud-based web apps, there is no opt-out short of ceasing use of the program entirely. Don't want their new features? Too bad, we're going to roll them out anyway, and there is no turning back after that. I'm still puttering along just fine on a copy of Office 2010, so my opinion…

Well, I can't quite get my Word 5.1a to run anymore. It was the best version of Word to ever have lived. Unfortunately, it only runs on 68k and PPC macs (on the latter even under emulation, IIRC). Software has a limited lifetime, unfortunately. Bit rot may be metaphorical, but it does happen.

True, and Office 2013 on MacOS does not work on newer versions of the OS (Intel chip).

At least Windows 10 has backwards compatibility, but even that is ending with Windows 11.

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Post by speeder »

zx2c4 wrote: post #102
nayroclade wrote: post #54

Many years ago, when Adobe bought Macromedia, they acquired a tool called Fireworks[1]. This was a combined bitmap and vector editor that was incredibly well-optimised for user-interface and web design, at a time when most designers were paying exorbitant license fees to do such work painfully and slowly in Photoshop and Illustrator. Fireworks was cheap, powerful, and hugely ahead of its time. Many of the features an…

I too really loved Fireworks (and Dreamweaver) back in the Macromedia days. As a kid then, it was really very intuitive to do all sorts of odd creative projects easily. Riding on nostalgia fumes, I went searching for screenshots and in the process amusingly found: https://askubuntu.com/a/244128 - a Linux user still running Fireworks 8 in WINE. I'm almost tempted to try the same...

I actually do that myself. I also use Fireworks 8 on windows when possible. I am yet to find a software that actually replaces it.

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Post by bosie »

ryeights wrote: post #415
bearmode wrote: post #386

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>the difficulty in canceling a subscription Never had an issue with this tbh, it's always very easy. Manage account > cancel plan. Hell, if you subscribe but then cancel within the same day, they give you a full refund. I've abused this a few times if I just need to do something quick - sub, use it for a few hours, cancel, and it doesn't cost me anything.

Their “yearly plan, billed monthly” with early termination fees is blatantly anti-consumer.

how can you terminate it early?
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