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I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen such a huge uproar over something like the new Artcraft open source software clones of Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe software, and I’m enjoying all the different views on this topic that I’m watching on Youtube lately. Maybe it was when Metallica sued Napster over mp3 downloads that something felt like “whoa that’s a big deal”. My whole Youtube feed over the last few days has been videos from people talking about Artcraft. I am not a Photoshop user. I used to use Photoshop many years ago when I got a bootleg version of Photoshop 6 (I said 6 lol – not CS6). But eventually that stopped working as the Windows OS changed, and Adobe went to subscriptions, and I’m not going to pay a subscription for that. I bought Affinity Photo 1 in 2021 (I think – I would have to check my license for it to be sure), and I still use that currently. In fact it’s what I use to design my logos and other graphics I use for my blogs and websites. I know there is now a new Canva owned version of that, but I haven’t tried it. Affinity Photo 1 does everything I need. I would be lying if I said I’m not excited to see all of this cloned software coming out. Sure the software is buggy now, and that seems to be a major concern as it should be, but developers have paid software out currently that is buggy as well, and I’m sure these open source clones can and will be fixed. UpNote for example is constantly getting updated for bug fixes. I applaud the guy who cloned Photoshop. In a way, I hate to see developers slammed with developments like that because I do believe in supporting software developers and engineers by paying for certain software that I couldn’t be productive without, but at the same time, I feel it’s deserving. Software companies have been ripping off people for decades just because they could. Bring on more clones. Bring on more open source.

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