By the Affinity and Canva Teams

An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    451·
    3 months ago

    The industry has shown us how they absolutely cannot be trusted, while FOSS applications have shown us they are sustainable and will always put the user’s interests at heart, with Blender being a prime example.

    We have to stop funding closed source software, enshittification is inevitable.

    If we all donated the price of Affinity’s perpetual licence to Krita, Kdenlive, and Inkscape, we’d have a suite of tools that could outcompete them all, and never have to worry about another acquisition.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Totally agree, but the thing that makes me angry is that many, many open source projects miss this opportunity because of absolutely garbage UI/UX.

      Look at LibreOffice, for example. Lots of features that do more than what people need from MS Office most of the time, but even I cannot bring myself to use it long term because it’s UI/UX is trash.

      The open source industry has the problem that its devs think functionality is 99% of what matters, and most users disagree.

      We need to have some project that is crowd funded to hire some awesome designers and UX people and have them constantly working on important open source projects. I’d sponsor that in a heartbeat.