And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

Photopea represent

I still remember when they bought Macromedia Flash and all my animator friends and I simply couldn't stand Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it was called. It used more resources, crashed more often and didn't exactly bring anything revolutionary to the table in terms of new functions.

And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.

I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.

That's weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don't have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn't work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it's a user made setting not a bluesky one

"Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."

TBH it's better journalism to include the link, but they could do both.

what are skeets

Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options. Support the devs and people fueling real creativity rather than staying in Adobe's ecosystem, paid or not.

by charging them alot for using thier services.

great, cant view it because it wants me to log in...

proton did it to themselves by embracing the us and their fascist leader.