Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by m12k on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:06AM (#32851294)

It's kind of amazing to me that we've reached the point where using open source is not a matter of idealism, but rather risk management to guard against the threat of product regressions due to consumer-hostile takeovers.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by jcbrand on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:18AM (#32851463)

Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably about 20 years now.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by marcodiego on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:14AM (#32852358)

Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably since the beginning.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by badsectoracula on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:07AM (#32853155)

It always has been, where do you think that idealism came from? :-P

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by daniel-cussen on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:22PM (#32854325)

Same place but started out poor. Now there's money.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by DC-3 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:21AM (#32852458)

Open source began because Xerox neglected to update their printer drivers. It's always been a blend of idealism and pragmatics.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by marcodiego on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:59AM (#32853021)

You are mixing open source and Free Software.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by badsectoracula on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:06AM (#32853131)

Open Source is just a MBA friendly term for Free Software.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by contravariant on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:13AM (#32853258)

Though can I just say that Free software is a much better term than Open Source (unless of course you only wish to say the source is publicly available).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by maxhille on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:21AM (#32863965)

Neither term guarantees (via legal measure) that the source is available. For that you also need copyleft.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by acomjean on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:51AM (#32852891)

Or if you want to run your software on Linux.

Its amazing how adobe isn't porting anything to Linux, despite linux being starting to be used heavily now in the creative industries with the rise of blender and tons of work being done on render farms.

Blender and Krita are really high quality stuff, so hopefully problem solved. But those teams are really small compared to adobe.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by globular-toast on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:14AM (#32853281)

That has always been my selfish reason for using free/open source software. I agree with the principles of free software too, but even if I didn't I would be using it just so I can be in control of my own computing.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by archagon on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:04AM (#32852180)

"Always has been."

(Also: the threat of product pivots or discontinuations.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B by Rantenki on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:17AM (#32853328)

Not to be too inflammatory, but it's always amazing to me how people will ignore a threat as long as possible, then pretend it just appeared once they are forced to acknowledge it.

Not a perfect XKCD match, but pretty close: https://xkcd.com/743

[ Parent | on HN ]