Tickedon

Thank you to Ash, Affinity, and Canva for responding to the reaction with four clear pledges. It is really encouraging. The V2 universal license is incredibly great value (and much welcomed by me, as I use both OS X and Windows!). I look forward to many more years of fairly priced perpetual licenses.

If a reasonable valuation was £400m and someone puts £800m / $1bn on the table, I think most people would bank that and then start looking at the other terms - as implied in the article. A great result for the owners and many Serif employees. Probably less good for UK Plc and, eventually, users like us.

Not the news I wanted to read in The Times this morning: “Australian billionaire has global designs with Affinity deal” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f6540177-9337-4782-91dd-4b0a84ffb83d?shareToken=7013a846cca64688ba3515ce5ef702ab Congratulations to those who’ve had a successful exit. But like others, the FAQa aren’t reassuring and given Canva’s model is subscriptions I fear it’s only a matter of time the pricing model for Affinity changes.