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Love to see this the day Adobe emailed to say it’s hiking my Photoshop/Lightroom subscription by 50% ($10/mo -> $15/mo)
I get this every single year. Just go on to their web site, call up a human agent on their chat and tell them it's too expensive. They have a ton of offers to get it back down to what you were paying before.
Adobe users are insane.
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I was so in love with the idea of "purchase and own for life" I thought every now and then I will buy the license and have a piece of mind. What started after SaaS is now at its closing days to have fully ruined software and from now on there will be hell like we have never seen before. Free Software is dead, Indie software as we used to is dead, and great businesses like Serif are down the road of being dead. I'm so…
I mean, what’s the problem? You wanted a pay once use forever and you got that with v2. So keep using v2. No one is going to charge your credit card.
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I tried ;) GIMP developers aren't very open to external contributions. I don't consider my attempts to be of low quality either, but the bike shedding resulted in them never being accepted. "It's best to wait until X lands" or "I think this will be part of Y". Meanwhile, 10 years later, the functional features I've tried to contribute are still not possible in GIMP ;)
Yeah, I was mostly being facetious haha. I know that GIMP as a project is notoriously difficult to contribute to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#Forks_and_derivatives There might be one already, of course.
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I was so in love with the idea of "purchase and own for life" I thought every now and then I will buy the license and have a piece of mind. What started after SaaS is now at its closing days to have fully ruined software and from now on there will be hell like we have never seen before. Free Software is dead, Indie software as we used to is dead, and great businesses like Serif are down the road of being dead. I'm so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition is doing better than ever. All of it remains Free, there's more than ever and more being made than ever and there's more funding and demand than ever. Only immediate existential threat is political attacks via corrupt laws.
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Support open source projects with donations and contributions
i would gladly pay $500 for GIMP if i felt their developers would prioritize features that i actually need out of an image manipulation program. they never have and by the looks of things, they never will. it's too bad.
This is very disappointing. I bought Affinity because I thought a "pay once, own the software" was a business model worth supporting. In fact, people loved to point to Affinity's transactional model to contrast it with Adobe's subscription model. Now it will become freeware, and by "freeware" I mean "nagware" because it will keep telling you about pro/AI features that you don't have access to. Just like on Windows yo…
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Fine, but the Mac mini I downloaded this in has very little internal storage, so I am not using this and will only keep the old designer and publisher apps around (Pixelmator is better for my use case)
Well the same Adobe apps would be around 10GB so it's a bit pointless to complain about it.
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Hate to break it to you, but NeXTSTEP failed in the marketplace. If Apple hadn't bought them, they'd still be gone. But more importantly: who cares? There is no moral imperative to keep products alive. It's just stuff that people make. Products come and go, and founders owe you nothing.
Who cares right? Maybe Apple and Google and Microsoft should just merge. Then we can just use the same operating system for everything. Can’t think of any downside! I’m not mourning the loss of a product, I’m lamenting the negative externalities of acquisitions. Some of them are a net positive for sure but it seems like those are in the minority.
If YOU want another OS, there's nobody stopping you from developing, forking or otherwise funding the creation or developing one.
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What do you think MacOS since v10 is?
MacOS v10+ accounts for NeXTSTEP, but what do you consider to be the current MacOS (classic) to satisfy the not having one less operating system condition?
They've lost a loyal customer. I no longer have a reason to continue using the product, and would rather switch to Adobe.
What was your reason to use the product (to what end) and what has changed now that you now have no reason to continue to use it? What has Adobe to do with it? I get that some have fears that Affinity is getting unusable for them in the future so maybe it's good to look for alternatives. But if you are willing to switch to Adobe you can do this when it has gotten unusable.
Adobe's products are more professional than Affinity's, and they are de facto the norm for professional graphic design.
The main reason for me to consider non-free software for graphic design is not that Gimp, Inkscape, etc. are not good enough and lacking in features. It's about the social aspect of working and interacting with other peer designers.