Good lad.
Legend.
I’m so thankful to people like Pages who work hard on free alternatives.
Adobe didn’t lose money. You can’t lose money you never had.
Have you ever heard of the term “Lost Profits”?
I put that one right next to ‘Wasn’t good enough’
Someone asked me yesterday what products besides Adobe’s there were for his elderly cousin to merge PDFs, or extract pages. I proposed a few options, so I’m technically helping to lose money for Adobe. I’m doing my part 😁
Because of Adobe’s hatred and abuse of their users, Adobe lost millions of dollars.
Corporate has a strategy to win those customers back, in all such industries, buy out your competition and enter into a shittrust with remaining competitors, agreeing to both maximize revenue rather than compete for favour.
Anti trust has been dead, courts have been captured, customers have no choice, stonk goes back ups.
Amen for the GNU GPL. Changed the world. Gave us an out.
What a bastard. Consider the plight of the multinational corporation. They are ashen faced in the C-suite mumbling lamentations, ‘number go down’ and ‘shareholder value’.
A few of the replies here, those making those replies, could do with having someone introduce them to the concept of “put up or hack up”, and getting into a Free Software philosophy mindset, and out of a consumer mindset.
GIMP’s free software. Free to use, study, share and change… You the user are empowered. Even if you yourself lack aptitude (beyond just having never tried), you can still seek the services of others, be it those you pay to implement what you want, or, form a community of like minded individuals with similar needs to be met, and from there, start to make it as you want. These days, even LLMs can help curate the software into forms more suited to your needs. … That is, where that’s not already happened, or where there are reconfigurations you were simply not aware of, because it had not occurred to you to search for such, having been conditioned to stay in the box by the consumer mindset the corporation curated in your mind. It’s refreshing to get out of having your mind curated by the corporation, and into using your mind to curate your software.
Either the user controls the software, or the user is controlled by the software and those who control the software.
It’s a different philosophy. Not just a different platform for you as a “consumer”. You’re not a cash-cow for the corporation, with Free Software. You can contribute. Scratch those itches yourself. You may find others share the same itch. Giving back, is a much more rewarding experience than just hoping daddy corporation will give you what you want while you continue to atrophy your abilities.
Put up or hack up. ;)
And giving back comes in all forms. Writing docs, answering questions, helping out new users, fixing bugs, or just spreading the gospel of said FOSS software.
… Y’all should check out Krita.
… Y’all should check out Krita.
MyPaint too.
And others.
Imagemagick’s not to be scoffed at either.
I know quite a few professionals that use GIMP and Inkscape just so they arent locked into the adobe ecosystem and monthly/yearly fees.
Lets make it billions!
I should mail this guy $5. Or, like, an edited image of a $5 bill with his face on it.
Why not both?
I followed your advice and got Jehan Page’s face tattooed on my face. My wife left with the kids because of it and man, does this rule. Thanks for the sage words dude.
All within a span of two hours? Damn.
My entire family is dead now and I have Jehan Page’s name in LOTR Elven script tattoed around my butthole.
Ah, the ring of power
All within a span of three minutes? Sheet son, you get things done.
Man ain’t nobody lost money because of Gimp. Flawed argument aside, at least Blender could be in for a shout
Last year Blender got a shout out at the Oscars from the makers of Flow.
And Inkscape, fuck Adobe :)
Now that’s a more reasonable contender than GIMP
I used to steal profit from Safeway all the time! I should have put those
tips intended for me as an individualdonations to the corporation in the till as was policy. So naive and selfish.
based
Gimp, and millions of dollars are entirely immaterial to Adobe.
The truth hurts on this one sadly.
Before I retired last year, I was web developer for a community college. We had a graphic artist, but frequently I needed to just do a quick resize or change format for a web image. GIMP got the job done without the resource gluttony of PS.
