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Richard Stallman was right.
by Kenji 7y ago
Richard Stallman was right.
- yellowapple 7y agoSpecifically (for the benefit of those who've flagged the above comment to death), Stallman and the FSF have opposed the proliferation of DRM and SaaS for this exact reason: because a company can - for any reason - pull the plug on the software for which you've paid. There are free-as-in-free-speech alternatives to most (if not all) of Adobe's software products. If they're "not good enough", then it's in our best interests to fix that, whether by contributing code to the existing replacements or creating new ones (perhaps forked from the existing ones). In the meantime, even if they're "not good enough", at least they can be used, unlike Adobe's "good enough" tools, so perhaps setting aside those issues in favor of tools that get you most of the way there without the potential to suddenly disappear from you with zero recourse would be prudent?