[scribus] Adobe ends perpetual licenses

[Antonio Roberts]

> Maybe this is a bit off place, but: isn't this the perfect time to release
> a campaing like the one did by OpenShot
Canonical once tried offering a bounty to people to try and make GIMP
better. It didn't work. The point there is that, although very useful,
money doesn't solve everything. In the case of a lot of open source
software what is needed is developers, and disgruntled ex-Adobe users
flocking to Scribus does not necessarily equal more developers.

As Alexandre suggested, Adobe are still making a lot of money and even
stated that a lot of users had already subscribed to the Creative
Cloud prior to it becoming the standard.

Hopefully those who care enough about "owning" software will start to
consider all the alternatives of which Scribus etc is one

Antonio

On 8 May 2013 22:27, Santiago Fernández Núñez <santiagofn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe this is a bit off place, but: isn't this the perfect time to release
> a campaing like the one did by OpenShot (
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux)
> for raising funds, aiming to introduce new functionalities to Scribus?
> Maybe the people who are considering quitting Adobe would make a little
> donation to improve the now-visible alternative to InDesign.
> Regards,
> S.
>
> PS: Sorry for the grammar mistakes, if there's any; English is not my
> native language.
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
> alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
>>
>> > Interesting, isn't it? It seems they are happy to lose millions of
>> > customers worldwide who haven't access to broadband
>> > connections or who operate production computers without
>> > access to the internet out of security concerns. We'll see how
>> > long this will last.
>>
>> Like, forever? Read Adobe's quarterly financial reports.
>>
>> > Meanwhile, other companies, as well as Open Source
>> > projects can lean back and smile.
>>
>> Have you released 1.6.0 yet? :)
>>
>> Alexandre Prokoudine
>> http://libregraphicsworld.org
>>
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