It's just a bunch of other companies trying to lock you into their systems before they crank up the subscription price and enshittify. It buys a little time and saves some money in the short term, but only FOSS could address the deeper problems.
It's almost enough to make Chuck Schumer mumble "Careful now!"
Is it that technology is evil though, or is it the people who own the technology, or the economic system in which this all takes place?
When has Trump ever realized he's being played?
Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.
Just once I'd like to see the world's companies react to dumb local laws by refusing to sell their products where the laws apply. Problem is, other states and countries always introduce matching stupid laws soon enough. California, for example, is introducing a similar restriction on 3D printers.
I don't really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don't really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft's Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.
"Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards" - the guy who then immediately closed the strait and is keeping it closed.
Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.
Someone please give the record player a tap - the record's stuck and I don't even like this tune.
I'm all for challenging Adobe, but the journalist should ask how and why these competing products are free. What are the implications of that in the long run? I was happy to pay a reasonable price for the Affinity suite, and it becoming free actually worries me. Free isn't something a company does unless they're going to crank up the price later, or carry ads, or spy on you, or steal your creations, or lock you in, or all of the above. It's pretty shallow how the article just stops at "free is great".
It's probably lobbying by corporations who feel threatened by people being able to make and repair their own stuff. Maybe also the government's desire to spy on everything people are doing with tech. These things are always dressed up as safety measures.