Comment by rvz
3 years ago
> As usual, when money talks, we get FOSS posts with a subset of the capabilities of the real thing.
This. They're right you know. The same thing happened with LibreOffice, GIMP and InkScape. Even if you have an installed version of them, they don't come any where near the features of 'the real thing' and users will complain why it is not Office® 365 or the real Photoshop®, or actually Figma®.
On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.
The only exception to this is Blender, but as always with specialist software it is used by a small amount of users compared to the applications that I have described.
As for Penpot, it just tells me that the Figma users that are 'upset' over Adobe today are just going to keep using Figma anyway and are just reacting over the news of the acquisition, since Penpot still doesn't meet the requirements and vast capabilities of Figma.
> On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.
An online version of LibreOffice has been available since 2017 and now there is even a WebAssembly version in development.
> On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.
The point of FLOSS software is not to prevent proprietary tools from existing, it's to make sure that a Free&Open alternative exists if you don't want them.