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Better archive this E-Mail, this will be fun.
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48 minutes ago, OriolFM said:
It's a lifetime license. I don't think they will revoke it.
What they can do is stop supporting it and getting fixes out there as they move onto the next version, but you can also keep using the current one as long as you like (same thing they did with V1 vs V2). And if you find a better product that you like, you can also move on. Or not. Choice is yours.maybe not revoke in legal terms but basically make it EOL shut down activation servers etc is practically as close to a revocation as it goes, also I need to read affinity's EULA again but many of these EULAs in general kinda allow the company to revoke "for any or no reason", so not sure if affinity has that inside
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23 minutes ago, Bartek said:
No. But - Canva is succesfull company and they probably know what they buy. Affinity is in the process of development and if they don't want to just devour it then they need to let it grow and use the main advantage it has now - the sales model. For now.
sure they know what they buy, similarly to many other companies, but the problem is not what they buy but what they do with what they buy.
They dont buy affinity to make it better they buy affinity to make money, that can include putting affinity features into canva and letting affinity die, monetizing affinity to hell and back or a mixture of both. or but I cant judge that if they compete in any way it's a neat way to get rid of competition, as has been done often enough.
15 minutes ago, Thomas Bohn said:Sorry, I've seen so many acquisitions in the last 20 years, hell 30 years that went downhill for the users and consumers. The chance that this will be any different is very low. Canvy spent a lot of of money on this, and they want their money back, this has to come from somewhere (meaning users).
literally this.
10 minutes ago, chessboard said:I've been in the graphics business since the early 90s and have seen a few of these takeovers. Experience teaches us not to trust the acquiring company, because these companies are primarily interested in the customer base of the acquired company and the money of its users, not in making the products better.
And the announcements about the pricing model are just as similar as the statements made by the CEOs of the acquired companies. "A great future in a great partnership with the new partner. Great things are already shining on the horizon." And so on, and so on. All heard umpteen times before. And the real development has been seen umpteen times.
And the contributions to the discussion are the same every time, including the call to have a little faith in the companies. It's all been done before.
While I havent been in the business at all really, I'd say this is the case across businesses, when companies acquire each other it generally ends up badly.
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6 minutes ago, Bartek said:
Guys? A little bit of faith in the management of Canva and Serif? Let's put it straight: at this moment Affinity is still growing and has a long path ahead of it before it reaches the goal of ACCORDING to Adobe's level. Right now the HUGE benefit to users is the purchase model and they would have to be out of their minds to change anything about it at this point.
In other words: Affinity purchase model gives too much advantage to their target users (and this is a different part of the market than Canva users) than to be so easily lost.
sure they would be out of their minds to do it considering it's more or less the only real advantage but in pursuit of quick money long term be damned a lot of stuff happens. and canva as a company working with subscriptions it's kinda ugly. also statements like "There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time", where there is no indication of any guaranteed times for how long v2 lasts or how long they plan to keep the one time purchase model other than "at this time", which can mean anything as well as literally nothing at all.
also it's not nesecarily about believing the management of specific companies, but just considering how these things kinda always went the scepticism is real and warranted, or can you list any examples where a good thing "joining the family" of something with clearly red flags ended up good?
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let's be real tho in 1 and a half years a lot can change especially with the current state of the world.
I aint a fan but I wouldnt immediately call it a lie just because things changed.
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the account site looks basically the same, that there's more below really wasnt obvious, I mean who expects more options for windows especially after having been taught that af2 comes as msix. I never thought they'd make exe installers.
altho calling it msi and being an exe is weird lol I mean an exe and an MSI are really different things
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yeah looks like this. only an MSIX for windows, a DMG for mac and QRs for ipads.
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affinity 2 only seems to come with an msix in the downloads, I cant seem to find any exe files for af2.
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everyone is looking at each other and taking what they think is nice. And I would highly doubt that MS and mac decided to make things like virtual desktop or clipboard history or whatever part of their OSes just because something like XEROX or whataver it was called had it 30+ years ago.
they are likely looking at currently available systems and what features users like there.
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12 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
No it didn't because Linux has never been mainstream on the desktop. Ever...
It has certainly been mainstream enough to not die.all of the other systems died and I doubt windows or mac would now look at extinct OSes to copy from rather than a system that sure is in the minority but well and alive
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5 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
From Affinity: I won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity, but I need someone to show me a combination of distro, desktop topology and deployment (paid) platform where we would recoup our development costs. If someone can show me that, I'll be willing to talk some more about it all..
So, for the Linux supporters, if you can come up with that combination you may get your wish. Until then, your comments are off topic.
steam has been brought up many times. is it so bad to not accept it as an answer?
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54 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Name one. I recall asking you to name two things which Linux introduced, you named two things it didn't.
well linux introduced those features to the mainstream when it comes to OSes, and yes while the precise question was what started in linux after that he said more precisely that they came on linux "before PC and mac". where with PC obviously windows is meant. because that's what ppl have been brainwashed into assuming being the same.
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5 minutes ago, ClairelyClaire said:
How something went mainstream matters a lot more than nitpicking over which guy technically thought of it first.
exactly that's what I am trying to say.
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1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Ask that incorrect posts are removed too. Any posts claiming that Linux invented or brought anything to the desktop environment, for example.
maybe linux didnt "invent" virtual desktops, clipboard tracking and several other things but among the big 3 (Windows Mac and Linux) linux was sure the one that has had it the longest, and likely improved upon it enough that it was brought to Windows and mac. like sure xerox atari and whatever may have been earlier but none of them are really around nowadays.
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40 minutes ago, Michael Tunnell said:
That's great you haven't had people say it to you, but that doesn't change how often it happens to others. It has been an insult to people with disabilities for decades. It is also used as a term to casually refer to something being limited on purpose such as "they made a new laptop but gimped the processor so why even buy it". I actually heard a YouTuber yesterday say that about a new Intel laptop with 4 core CPU.
There are instances where when someone is hurt they say that they "have a gimp leg". Many many variations. I am glad you hadn't had it said to you as an insult but it is very very common depending on your location and also depending on the level of physical issue. I have a friend born with muscular dystrophy and he said when he goes out in public (prior to covid) that he would hear it about once a week.
Likely helps that English isn't my native language (and insults are rarely taught at school). The only way i have heard gimp before was gimping an image as in "badly editing" it. But that it's an insult to disabled ppl actually hurts.
Regarding the off topic issue, yes talking about gimp in the context of affinity photo and Linux is imo okay but let's not take it too far.
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1 hour ago, Michael Tunnell said:
GIMP is a awful name because it's an insult to disabled people
Wtf? How that? I am classified as disabled and have no idea how gimp could be bad.
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okay, checked that link saying that the sets here in the forum are not the full library versions... kinda confusing
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6 hours ago, StuartRc said:
The full library is however much larger
where to find that
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51 minutes ago, wonderings said:
With cloud software, do you need to make something specific for Linux? I assumed if the app was running in the cloud via a browser you could pretty much access it with any browser that it supports and it was not tied down to an OS?
well I think he means in regards to the server's OS.
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thanks. i was working on this with someone else, and apparently he got the idea from a tutorial that the transparency gradient which is used on other places which needs to be uniform across them can be set as some kind of template that way. I just made a mask rect, that way it can be easily copied over.
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Hello, so I have a project and for some weird reason all new shapes seem to have an inherent gradient-thing that seems like a mask which I cannot remove and any fills I apply will be only applied upon that.
it's really weird and frustrating tbh, as I have no Idea what's going on.
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2 hours ago, wonderings said:
Did I miss an announcement from Apple where they stated Windows would not longer be installable via Bootcamp
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-mac-arm-windows-support-boot-camp
both sides basically give a big middle finger.
Apple doesnt want alternative boot options apparently and Windows Licenses ARM only to OEMs.
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okay. well I would also love affinity on Linux, especially with W10 being what it is and 8.1 only running till the start of 2023
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of course, that too.
I am going even further I am trying to look for something that actually works on linux, would be neat