It’s been a distressing trend over the last decade, that of taking commercial software from a paid-for licence model and moving into the cloud and onto a rental model. In out line, we’v…

“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model.”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I’ve never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.

  • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t work in graphics professionally, but there’s nothing I need to do that can’t be handled by Skribus and Gimp.

    WRT rented software, that while model gives me the heebie jeebies. I don’t trust anything to be around forever, so I definitely want my own copy.