Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Why Do Creators Hate Adobe So Much?" video.

  1. It has been done. There was a university in Paris that moved to using Krita for its arts courses. The open-source tools do exist, and have their own useful features. Like GIMP can deal natively with EXR files with deep pixels, without having to go through import/export steps and downsampling and all the rest of it. And Inkscape uses SVG as its native file format, that being the standard format for displaying vector graphics online. In fact, the entire VFX industry doesn’t seem to be making much use of Adobe products. Their machine installations are primarily running Linux nowadays, and Linux doesn’t run Adobe products.
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  2. Not at all. They are charging exactly what the users will pay. So long as users complain but keep handing over their money, Adobe has no reason to change.
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  3. There is no monopoly. Users can choose not to use Adobe products. The complaints are only coming from those who would rather make noise than make an effective decision with their lives. That’s why Adobe can afford to ignore them.
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  4.  @macha-leaf  But remember, those discounted licences have restrictions like “for personal/educational use only”, and even watermarks on top of that. Can you use those versions to create works and post them on commercial sites like YouTube, Facebook etc? Open-source software has no such restrictions: you get the full-featured version up front, and you can do what you like with it. This is how the students learn these days, in the online world.
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