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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by ZeroGravitas on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:17AM (#32626925)
RMS is on record as supporting BSD style licences for certain things because without them, proprietary software would have an even stronger stranglehold.

https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

So it's not totally black and white, there's tactics and strategy involved. The less money going to Adobe, the less power and control they have. If they can force you to pay, they can force you to do other things. If they can't force you to pay, then they can't force other things as well.

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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by dotancohen on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:24AM (#32627207)
The corollary is that FOSS-induced e.g. "student versions" of Adobe software entrench vendor lockin, as the students learn only Adobe software.
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