by zoky on 6/8/2024, 7:49:16 PM
by daft_pink on 6/8/2024, 7:28:22 PM
Ever since I switched to Final Cut Pro and PDFExpert on my Mac and canceled my creative cloud subscription I haven’t looked back. The heaviness of adobes additional apps and trying to push their cloud subscription running on my machine 24/7 just isn’t worth it.
by passwordoops on 6/8/2024, 7:20:24 PM
Adobe's PR re: the response to these changes
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...
by rpastuszak on 6/8/2024, 7:35:03 PM
I made a list of alternatives to Adobe software which some people here found helpful: https://untested.sonnet.io/Alternatives+to+Adobe
by chimen on 6/8/2024, 7:42:02 PM
Adobe is a virus. You cannot get rid of it. I have an old payment subscription at them that I cannot cancel even after calling the bank. You can't veen close it from the process list without sacrificing 2 hours.
by gnabgib on 6/8/2024, 7:22:22 PM
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by behnamoh on 6/8/2024, 8:10:17 PM
This is the price we pay for not supporting open-source alternatives. I love open-source but making a project open-source is a huge endeavor (removing "oh shit" commits, making the project well-structured, etc.) with little gain. Often times, users just nag and complain in the Issues without offering to contribute or opening a PR. And the culture tends to get toxic as soon as the maintainer shows some resistance against some ideas.
And if the maintainer says "aight, I need to pay the bills somehow", everyone gets offended because "that's not open-source" and "how dare you ask us for money". The end result is that companies that pay well attract the best talent, and open-source devs end up being discouraged, with little motivation to improve the software.
Adobe is just one example. I hate them with all my guts, but as long as people are more willing to pay Adobe big chunks of money while hesitating to press the "Buy me a coffee" button of an open-source alternative, I don't see Adobe/etc. change their strategy.
The most ridiculous and offensive thing about this was I got this pop-up while actually using Premiere, and it wouldn’t let me continue using the app until I agreed. Since I was in a rush and only using the free trial anyway, I just agreed, but promptly cancelled my trial after the project was done. I’m going to cancel all of my other Adobe subscriptions as well, and either start using alternatives, or maybe just pirate them out of spite.