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…

NOTE The original is about a Kickstarter. I’m not endorsing it or anything. Just reposting.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1209676

“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.

    • AdventureSpoon
      8•1 year ago

      I have used Affinity for about 5 minutes. Not because it’s bad, but because I’m not a designer and I’d first need to watch ten hours of YouTube before I can make a decent template for whatever. And no time for that yet

      But I did buy the full suite, just because (1) everything I would ever make with it is my own property. (2) I own the software, not rent it and (3) fuck Adobe it can die in a ditch. I’ll pay a 100 euros to your competition just because they are not you.

    • TiritibambixEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      It absolutely is. It also looks unsustainable, with such a name and icons branding.

      I like the idea though.

    • @IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      He’s always like this. I’ve bought from the guy and he always wants to avenge something, like he avenged Vantablack, which worked because now he has Black 4.0 (avaliable to those who already bought 3.0 for now, but already sold out) which is the blackest paint at the moment

      But he also had stuff like his “open source” Pantone clone which he made because Pantone limited their color use to subscriptions… which is very dumb because the whole point is not RGB colors, the whole point is that you can match your color in the design program to a real Pantone color sample that you can order and hold in your hands physically, and Stuart does not actually provide any pigment samples.