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1 year agoI agree - while I am very frustrated with Adobe’s practices I can’t deny that their creative software is very, very good. They have managed to build software suites that have been stable, consistent, and near the cutting edge of their industry for decades while avoid significant bloat and legacy hangover.
There is clearly a market for alternatives and we’ve seen some interesting packages come out but nothing has been a proper replacement yet. The barrier to entry for alternatives hasn’t been a legal barrier - it’s been a lack of design and development expertise.
Agree with all of the above and especially this. It’s counterintuitive for me - I’ve spent a lot of time and money to set up privacy conscious services for myself and my family over the years. But practically speaking, our lives wouldn’t be any different if I hadn’t.
I still do it and invest in it because I think privacy is a fundamentally important human right, but I have to recognize that it’s my own passion and not someone else’s.