By the Affinity and Canva Teams

An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

  • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    This is like when bluebeam was bought. Bring on the enshitification and monthly subs then phase out support for perpetual license versions until the product isn’t worth using anymore.

  • MasterHound@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    Just got this email. It’s better news at least but I’m not totally convinced by it just yet.

  • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Hahahahaha.

    In 5 years time they’ll whittle the pledges down a bit.

    In 10 they’ll remove it altogether.

      • stellargmite@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        For sure. When they had our livelihood by the balls because ‘industry staaaandaaaard’ then they stick it in a perpetually cranking vice called subscription model, we reach for any cope available. Its been decent cope and now we need a new cope.

        • taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          inkscape needs more contributions, both financially and in the way of code.

          The new advanced snapping system is as good or better than Affinity, path effects are an experimental feature that allows you to do batch shaping of a paths nodes using logical and mathematical parameters, CMYK support has landed and Inkscape is charting it’s own SVG standard specifically for vector graphics, design and drawing.

          The font handling was my biggest gripe, but even that’s gotten better.

          Besides the lack of art boards and certain other “nice to have’s”, I think I’ll be switching to Inkscape as a replacement.