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After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe (petapixel.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Semple, a multi-disciplinary British artist, promised to build “a brand new suite of world-class design and photography tools, with an uncanny similarity to the tools you’ve been indoctrinated in.”

“There’s a really urgent need for a suite of creative tools for creators that they actually own rather than rent. In a way, this first started when Adobe and Pantone decided to paywall the Pantone colors and I created Freetone — which was a free color plugin so creators could continue to access their palette,” he says.

“I have lawyers, and I’ve taken advice. We have solid plans in place. I would also point out that nobody has seen the final branding and no software that infringes on any of Adobe’s trademarks has been produced,”

“I have successfully challenged IP owned by Tiffany and Co, Pantone, Mattel, and others over the years. I feel we have a good and thorough understanding of where the legal line is and an ability to get as close to that as possible without overstepping it.”

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[–] Throwaway4669332255@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I depend on yours software to work, I'm not willing to pay a subscription. Period.

[–] Pokethat@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I'd happily pay for a 2023 Adobe Lightroom classic. Unfortunately Adobe doesn't offer this, but I can find it sailing the high seas branded this way.

It'd be cool to just buy it and get a year's worth of updates with the option of going subscription then

[+] PatFussy@lemm.ee -40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What? If you require a hammer to do work you refuse to pay for hammer?

[–] tomthegeek@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

A subscription isn't buying a hammer. A subscription is buying access to a hammer. Access that can be revoked at any time. That's not very reliable.

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

If you require a hammer to do work, you just buy a hammer that you can use for the rest of time or until you buy a better hammer.

You don't pay $10 dollars a month for the rest of time for the same hammer you could have just paid for previously. Especially since HammerCo might up the price, go out of business, or flat out stop offering the hammer subscription you rely on, and you lose access to your vital resource.

What a dumb argument.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

When you shove crayons up your nose and you're only paying a subscription for those crayons, you're going to have to return the crayons after the subscription ends

But see if you bought those crayons, you could leave them up there as long as you'd like.

[–] Throwaway4669332255@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I buy a hammer. I don't want to depend on another company for my hammer to work.

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not buying a hammer subscription

[–] LifeInOregon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I buy a hammer. I don’t rent it. When I buy a hammer I pay up front for the one I’m getting and keep it until it breaks or I replace it (and even when I replace it I likely keep the old one). I’ve got four hammers that I’ve had for between 20 and 4 years. And I paid for each of them once.