So we only have, monopolies instead? If you can't build, from the ground up, the same product and same functionality, there is no competition, EVER.
It's open source... code is there for you to see and check yourself.
If you want the free version, you can get it on github, nothing excluded. Even the paid one is cheaper than Adobe. That has to be good?
But there are a number of alternative products programmed by coders which were not created by someone who reverse engineered the functionality of an existing product.
Agreed, though Microslop has their fat fingers in a lot of pies. Azure, Office, Xbox, Windows, etc. Adobe... its primary earner is Creative Cloud. Also openoffice never competed against Microslops real Office product, Exchange. If you have exchange, adding excel, word, etc, is easier to do. Ecosystems... hard to get out of once you're in them.
Yeah, because artists have the time to personally check every single line of source code of the critical software they use daily, which they need to work 100% of the time.
Was this one reverse engineered? I didn't think it was. Could be wrong. I read about it... it was created from the ground up.
No... but opensource means those who do have the time, report on it.
My understanding is he reverse engineered function, not code or copyrighted assets which is perfectly legal (in the UK). I use Photoshop almost on a daily basis but I also don't like their licensing agreements and welcome competition but not like this.
I think if you don't have concerns about AI... you may not be human. AI is good, bad, amazing, destructive, many things all at once, kind of like humans.
The binary of the outdated Microsoft Word Version on my Mac has a whopping 2,21GB (and this is only the binary, no fonts, no templates, no caches, not preferences, nothing). I do still have a "fat Mac" (512k) from 1986 that has no hard drive. Along with it Microsoft Word, probably Version 1. It runs from a 712kb diskette, leaving plenty of room on that diskette for saving the documents you create. There is, to be honest, not much that one would miss from that early version of Word. You boot Mac OS from one diskette, remove the diskette, put in the other one with Word on it, fire it up and work smoothly with a full graphical user interface for both, OS and Word. Admittedly, the 640*480 b/w screen at 60Hz is somewhat hurting the eyes today and due to lack of a network port there's no internet available - but other than that: brilliant.
Windows runs open and libre office so this comment doesn't make sense.
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