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Adobe backlash is getting louder — time to escape proprietary creative tools? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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Bugs bunny in suit I wish adobe a very pleasant downfall. The stock drops.
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The comment was made in a year before Trump 2.0, at which point they weren't best buds with big tech, quite the opposite, because Trump was at the tail end of throwing a hissy fit against big tech.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh I do recall him mucking about with Google and Apple and Meta, but with how fickle that man is, that's hardly a point for anti big-tech

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    How do you mean? How is starting a bunch of anti-trust and pro-consumer "hardly a point for anti big-tech"?

    The facts are these: Republicans, under Trump, started these processes. Democrats mostly opposed them, because they were defaulting to "Trump = bad".

    The apolitical stance of Proton means that they don't do that defaulting. If Republicans do something good for privacy, anonymity (lol), or consumers, Proton will approve. If Dems do the same - proton will approve. If Greens (or whatever the pseudo "third party" calls itself) does it - Proton will approve.

    That's all there is to it.

    But we now live in times where people assume approving of "something XYZ did", automatically means "approving of XYZ", which is stupid, reductive, and destructive.

    For example, it leads otherwise sensible people to boycott an excellent product, just because its CEO said "the appointment of someone famously anti big-tech to a high anti-trust position in the DOJ is a good thing".

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