The problem is that, to use Adobe and Autodesk products, you bind yourself to proprietary formats. If you stop paying for, say, Illustrator or AutoCAD, you lose part or all of your work, since no other program supports the format 100%.
This is a problem for us customers/users who are now locked in. But it's not a morally bad move per se. It's shady. You know what they are up to. But it's hard to make an argument for opening up the format to the public when it's part of their business model.
Well, the fact that it's used to keep users in place is, inherently, dishonest and unethical. Short-term profitable, perhaps, but such shady practices always ultimately end badly for the company. ;) (Literally just wrote an article about it.)
The problem is that, to use Adobe and Autodesk products, you bind yourself to proprietary formats. If you stop paying for, say, Illustrator or AutoCAD, you lose part or all of your work, since no other program supports the format 100%.
This is a problem for us customers/users who are now locked in. But it's not a morally bad move per se. It's shady. You know what they are up to. But it's hard to make an argument for opening up the format to the public when it's part of their business model.
Well, the fact that it's used to keep users in place is, inherently, dishonest and unethical. Short-term profitable, perhaps, but such shady practices always ultimately end badly for the company. ;) (Literally just wrote an article about it.)
I'd like to think so, for the sake of ultimate justice and all 👍 :) What's the URL of your article?
Here you go: dev.to/codemouse92/the-other-ranso...