posting in 8k in protest of moldy mondays rule

spujb@lemmy.cafe to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 765 points –
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At this point, I'd say it's not just correct but a moral obligation. Adobe has caused incalculable damage to the softwarescape by buying up smaller but popular companies, shoving their products full of AI crap, and putting them behind a subscription.

Allegorithmic used to have Linux releases for several of their Substance products. They no longer exist. Guess what fucking happened.

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If you see someone pirate proprietary software: No you didn't.

First you tell them about the FSF...

Iā€™d like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or as recently i have taken to calling - GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a full functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

This is the highest quality version of this meme I've ever seen

Must have been made with pirated photoshop.

Anyone know where I could get a good copy of Lightroom?

So cgpeers has been the best place to get those from for me buuut they closed registrations a couple of years ago now. I can throw a link to the 2024 monkrus version I grabbed though. Not sure how people are with straight up linking things in here though.

I came her to ask the same question.

I came her to ask the same question.

Good for you, but you don't have to make anyone cum just to ask

I feel like it's even advantageous to them to pirate. If everyone wanting to work in graphic design pirates Photoshop, they'll know how to use it in the business world, and their work will buy it because it's what everyone knows.