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Martin believes everyone should have access to free quality software.
Thanks so muchπ
Also shouting out Krita as a Photoshop alternative for digital painting, digital art.
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How is its CMYK profiles in your opinion?
People like him are why I still have hope in tech. May the machine bless him eternally.
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Inkscape is good but it can't replace illustrator, especially for the needs of someone willing to pay $1000/year for it
Maybe the affinity suite is more appropriate (ROI in just 2 months of adobe subscription)
So the website is super summy, finally found the "real" download button which took me to the MS app store. Ok fine, but now its been 10 minutes and it actually hasn't started downloading yet...
Are you sure you are at https://inkscape.org/ ?
Last time I downloaded it ~1 year ago I don't remember any hoops I had to jump through.
Can confirm, your link worked great, was able to directly download the installer. Thank you!
I disagree with that framing, someone not buying your shit is not the same as you losing money. Inkscape saved millions for graphic designers, which is very different. Adobe was not entitled to that money, you can't lose something that was never yours.
Subtle distinction, but actually pretty huge. I agree with you. Companies also use this to say that pirating is stealing, when they never had the business in the first place.
Exactly. I'm pirating because I can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars each month to watch all the movies and shows that I do. If I didn't have the opportunity to pirate, I still wouldn't afford it legitimately...
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"I bought a lottery ticket and didn't win. I lost 50 millions dollars!"
- adobe
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those dollars were not adobe's to lose but users' to save
This is the heart of the matter. You can't lose what you never had.
I am a Corel kind of bird myself, having used it both professionally (which is how I got started with it) and at home for a couple of decades now. I will say two things about that:
In its current version Inkscape is roughly on par with were CorelDraw was in its 4.0 state or thereabouts (which I still have a copy of, on like seventeen 3.5" floppy disks!) which sounds like damning with faint praise but it really isn't considering that Inkscape costs nothing to use.
However, one factor that I think most people don't think about is that Inkscape is currently the best software I've ever used, bar none, for ripping apart .pdf documents made by other software, for the purposes of monkeying with their contents. And that's a ten story tall flaming middle finger to Adobe, and completely obviates the need for 99.9999999% of all users to ever have to pay for the "pro" version of Adobe Acrobat or whatever they're calling it this week just to be able to made minor adjustments to a .pdf.
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You don't lose money when people use a competitors service/product over yours. That money wasn't yours to lose.
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I appreciate him very much, OSS maintainers and devs dont get enough praise. Also I dont get the intense entitlement some people have towards unpaid OSS devs and mainatiners, they think that they somehow deserve a product equal to that of a corporate offering while not offering any money or code.
It's because they haven't thought about it.
They're so used to the paradigm. I pay money. I get product. I get support.
So when they get the product but they don't pay money, their brain short circuits and thinks they deserve some kind of support.
In a capitalistic world, communistic projects are confusing. Which is sad.
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Inkscape is one of my favorite applications out there. I use it almost daily, both for my day job and hobbies. Thanks Martin!
Kudos to Mr. Owens and all Inkscape developers. Inkscape is a masterpiece.
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