The Other Way To Fight Software Rental (hackaday.com)

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"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.

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

fuck adobe to the ends of the earth; their subscription thing was the most false-premise disgustingly manipulating bullshit i've ever seen.

i got a steady job and started renting; thinking maybe i'd even buy it if i got good. then i realized you couldn't even buy the fucking thing! and there was "no such thing" as a monthly subscription, they just charge you monthly for a yearly subscription that is a $80 penalty to cancel [metered by how many months left]. fucking completely disgusting, parasitic horseshit that should get you tried in a military fucking tribunal in the middle of the ocean

and i got bootlickers on reddit saying this was fine!! of course it's justified to change a yearly fee, they put it in misleading, small print when you signed up, so that's FINE! a cancellation penalty for a FUCKING SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD

FUCK!!

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