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After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe (petapixel.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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TL;DR:

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Color me skeptical

The Foss community already tried for years. And the gap is widening even more thanks to AI.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Speak for yourself. GIMP rules, and DaVinci Resolve (not OSS, but still free) does just fine.

Fuck Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Davinci is straight up way better than premiere lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

DaVinci has its quirks and one or two things I wished it had. But, it is far more feature-rich than 95% of the population needs. And for the other 5%, there's plenty of plugins.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Openshot, kdenlive, handbrake, we got a bunch of options.

[–] proton_lynx 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even as a FOSS lover, those softwares are unfortunately light years behind professional solutions like Premiere, DaVinci, Photoshop, etc. But I wish he would open source all those Abode projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree, these solutions are more of light and hobbyist solutions. Adobe has always been the leader of the creative tools and it's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

GIMP is for hobbyists. Ir has a broken core that needs a rewrite to fix.

Way better alternative is Affinity Photo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Really wish davinci had a flatpak or appimage

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

GIMP does rule!