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The Affinity and Canva Pledge (affinity.serif.com)
submitted 8 months ago by thehatfox to c/technology
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An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least that’s one plus with actually buying software vs renting it like Adobe. If they close down/go belly up, I still have what I paid for.

[–] pikmeir 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True, but people who purchased Photoshop outright also still own it. It's just super old and lacking most of today's features.

[–] Squeak 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That will eventually happen to affinity I’m sure, but at least affinity is ~5% the price a perpetual CS6 license was.