“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will follow an affordable paid-for licence model.”
The Abode project seems overly optimistic in terms of scope, cost and timing to me but then I’ve never been involved in software development. Still, alternatives to the big names are always nice.
Artists have the choice to go with FOSS software, instead they let the industry get captured by Adobe while crying about AI (and when adobe adds ai its suddenly an awesome tool again). I honestly don’t have much empathy left for traditional artists (specifically painters, just last week i donated to a guitar player).