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Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation (appleinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation::Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus were terrible to use after using Adobe for years. Get Affinity suite instead and save yourself the rage and frustration. It's one-time payment license (not a subscription) and they have deals. I got the license for the three of them for $90. They are way closer to Adobe products and definitely worth the one-time cost.

I love the concept of open source, but you can only make so many compromises in quality and usability, especially if you're likelihood depends on it. Gimp, etc just aren't there.

(On the other end of the spectrum, Blender is so amazing I can still hardly believe it.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I love the concept of open source, but you can only make so many compromises in quality and usability

I think this is a false dichotomy. You contradict yourself in the next sentence with an example that FOSS isn't necessarily inferior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Blender enters the chat.

FOSS is a slow moving boulder. Eventually it catches us and consumes competition if it can keep momentum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You need to check your reading comprehension. I never said there's any such dichotomy about FOSS as a general concept. I specifically named Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus before and after that sentence. Just because a FOSS "alternative" exists, doesn't mean it actually is an alternative, or at least an acceptable one. Each software has to be evaluated individually. In the case of Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus, they would not be acceptable in a professional creative space.