A team effectively open sourced major Adobe Inc. tools and supposedly they're competitive in terms of quality. If smaller teams can achieve this using AI to accelerate development, then the prospect of earning money doing this as a service is nearly nothing. The costs have plummeted to almost free, and the moat doesn't exist.

The future for a company like Adobe is going to be very interesting. Software as a service can't be profitable if it doesn't cost anything and it's all open source.

It makes sense that's how it'd happen, every time someone switches to using an open source tool it takes money away from software companies which then leads to layoffs. I don't really know what that looks like, have you noticed any other open source alternatives that are actually drawing attention?

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

Na, saaspocalypse has come and gone, ai can't replace a decade of optimisations and streamlining.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    GIMP:

    • Exists
    • Works on Window$
    • Free and opensource
    • Better than Photo$hop in every way

    A random vibecoder: I'm gonna create Photoslop app real quick, it's gonna be great and disrupt the market and I will totally not get sued

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    The footer says "made by artists, for artists" yet the parent company seems to be an ai audio amd video vendor.

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    [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    @informapirata @informatica è un balocco... peccato che affinity non sia anche x linux...

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    In realtà Affinity funziona bene tramite Wine. C'è anche un pacchetto AppImage già pronto di tutto: https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

    Certo, una build nativa sarebbe meglio.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    @Scrollone @ferry l'ho provato su Arch (Steamos per la precisione) e si avvia ma è molto lento e poco reattivo, nonostante sia un buon effort. Devo ancora provare questa suite ma già l'evento ha una sua importanza imho

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