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Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative? Pe
by evolve2k 4y ago
Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative?
Penpot have now, four months later, released a 'feature parity' release in adding Flexible layouts and better Dev support tools.
Penpot could now be a serious consideration for design & dev teams with this release.
- rvz 4y ago> Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative? It is not 'a legit community driven alternative' since that $8 million of VC money is not theirs. Penpot is now controlled by VCs and it is growth at all costs and head for a acquisition or IPO. Who is to say that Penpot would start close-sourcing some features or having a secret closed-source version only available as a SaaS offering and some of the code won't be available to the community? Depending on the VCs involvement and how much Penpot is making, I won't be surprised to see Penpot starting to hide some features in the open-source version and add them only in the paid hosted SaaS version.
- blacklightpy 4y agoIt has 20k+ stars on GitHub. They have enough support to not sell themselves out to VCs.
- rvz 4y agoThe number of stars a project has is meaningless to whether if the company would decide to sell themselves out or not.
- diacritica 4y agoNo, that's not happening.