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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

IntelliJ is great for organizational settings. I would never use it for home use as there are many good free alternatives for that kind of setting.

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

So jetbrains is “acceptable” because I don’t need to open my own wallet.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

inkscape is on a level with illustrator (maybe even better)

for drawing: try krita

if you want to pay money (much much less than for adobe): Affinity is on a level with fotoshop

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Affinity just got brought out by Canva https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

Of course they are claiming oh no we won't be going subscription only, but if history is to be believed, give it a year or two and see that stance change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Sheesh, FOSS licenses really are the only force in the universe that can stop this nonsense.

I remember shelling out for Substance indie licenses thinking it would be a good investment. Shortly after they're:

part of the "adobe family" (yaaay! /s)
Not gonna make it subscription only, c'mon guys. It's ok.
No seriously, we hear you, you'll have options! Definitely!
Newsletter: Ok we're subscription only, "Get your keys for the super out of date version because we're just deleting it from human history now."
SaaS cloud only and you're gonna like it, peasant.

Never trusting private software like that ever again.

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