Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by burlesona on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:57AM
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Just as a counter point, when the first CS subscription came out it allowed me to use Photoshop and Illustrator legally for $30 or so for a month at a time on an as-needed basis (I didn’t always need it), when the alternative was to pay like $1k up front (I don’t remember exactly). As a bootstrapped and low income person at the time this made it possible for me to access the software when I otherwise couldn’t have. So, it’s not exclusively a bad thing.
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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by dekerta on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:33PM
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That's fair, but it's terrible for people like me. I hate not being able to own my desktop software.
I'm a hobbyist photographer, and I use Lightroom quite a bit. I purchased Lightroom 4.0 back in 2013, and it has been worth every penny, but now I'm stuck on version 4.0 forever because I refuse to pay a never-ending monthly fee for software that I use as an amateur.
I use Darktable now. It's an excellent open-source competitor, but it's not as good as Lightroom. I would gladly pay a few hundred dollars to buy a perpetual license for a new version.
Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by dylan604 on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:58PM
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Would 4.0 even run on modern OS? 32bit vs 64bit considerations. Hooks into graphics libraries in OS changes as well. No hardware acceleration in debayering RAW, etc. There have been a lot a lot a lot of changes since perpetual licensed versions of software that nobody would be happy sticking with just for license sake.