Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results

Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules::Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

    They bought Allegorithmic, put their Substance products behind a subscription, and discontinued Substance Painter’s Linux release because it was inconvenient to their subscription model. Adobe can vanish off the face of the fucking earth for all I care.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      Can we drop the Adobe executives into the ocean and make them pay for a subscription to a dinghy?

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        You’re thinking too small!

        • We sell them a cheaply made dinghy for a one-time payment with a 400% markup (it’s okay, it has AI features)
        • The lifetime license expires in a few days
        • For continued support, we coerce them into a multi-tier subscription
        • Tier 1 gets them access to some tape to fix the inevitable holes
        • Tier 2 gets them a hand-operated pump
        • Tier 3 gets them one (1) oar and a very nice hand-written letter to thank them for their trust and support

        Then I roll up to them in my libre motorboat and chuck them in the ocean because fuck them.

    • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      None of the photo editing tools are very good relative to photoshop. Affinity photo is somehow both almost there and woefully short at the same time.

      • Nutteman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Krita feels very close to me but I can understand I’m barely a photoshop adept so there may be a lot of missing feature parity I don’t know about.

        • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Krita excels at what it does and thats illustration. It’s not really a photo editing software.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      Their lower level employees. Despite record profits and despite the fact that these decisions are mandated by C-suite executives, these fines will “require” layoffs to appease the shareholders.

      They could just accept that their practices are corrupt and actually change, but that’s not as easy as just laying off several thousand of the ordinary workers who do most of the work.