Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use. Academia can choose what they teach and require Governments can choose what they pay for
We have power
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ISOmorph@feddit.org 3 weeks agoI agree with your point but you mentioned the services that are literally the hardest to find alternatives for. Need to use photoshop professionally, good luck getting around adobe. Sys admin only allows microsoft because he doesn’t want to manage a bazillion different setups, get used to windows buddy.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professionally environments are to adopt it.
Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.
Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 3 weeks ago
Agreed. I’ve been using Krita quite a bit lately and honestly, it’s really good. I haven’t used an Adobe product for a few years, but it’s been able to do everything I want it to do so far.
DoubleTK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Adobe has a Print Production feature where you can run a Preflight Analysis that identifies all the elements in the PDF. I haven’t been able to find a similar feature elsewhere. I’d love to get off Adobe, but that one feature is pretty critical for my workflow.