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> I think you mean "proprietary color systems". No, "proprietary software" is correct. > Open source software has never supported PANTONE. The point is that

• CharlesW 4y ago
  > No, "proprietary software" is correct. Nope. PANTONE (a.k.a. Pantone Matching System) is a color system (or color-matching system, if you prefer) that existed long before microcomputers. The system itself is the proprietary bit. If it weren't, open source software could easily support it.
  • josephcsible 4y ago
    Yes, Pantone and Photoshop are both proprietary. My point is that if people instead used a FOSS image editing program, they'd never end up in the situation where some feature of it they were previously using gets unilaterally taken away.
• dkarras 4y ago
  With open source, you would not be able to get it in the first place, period. PANTONE has intellectual property here and no crowdsourced / opensource alternative exists if you want to do what PANTONE provides for you. Here, you have the option to pay to get it.
  • josephcsible 4y ago
    > With open source, you would not be able to get it in the first place, period. Which would indeed have avoided this problem. This bait-and-switch is worse than just never having been able to use Pantone colors at all would have been, because now they're holding your existing .psd files hostage.
    • dkarras 4y ago
      > Which would indeed have avoided this problem. This bait-and-switch is worse than just never having been able to use Pantone I understand that you have ideologically strong feelings about this... But no.