Martin believes everyone should have access to free quality software.
Thanks so much🙏
I disagree with that framing, someone not buying your shit is not the same as you losing money. Inkscape saved millions for graphic designers, which is very different. Adobe was not entitled to that money, you can't lose something that was never yours.
Subtle distinction, but actually pretty huge. I agree with you. Companies also use this to say that pirating is stealing, when they never had the business in the first place.
Exactly. I'm pirating because I can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars each month to watch all the movies and shows that I do. If I didn't have the opportunity to pirate, I still wouldn't afford it legitimately...
You are right, of course, but I personally draw a great of pleasure from imaging the CEO of Adobe screaming, "CURSE YOU MARTIN OWENS!!!"
"I bought a lottery ticket and didn't win. I lost 50 millions dollars!"
those dollars were not adobe's to lose but users' to save
This is the heart of the matter. You can't lose what you never had.
You don't lose money when people use a competitors service/product over yours. That money wasn't yours to lose.
Yet, the companies cry about losing money due to online piracy. At this point it's eźtremally funny
I appreciate him very much, OSS maintainers and devs dont get enough praise. Also I dont get the intense entitlement some people have towards unpaid OSS devs and mainatiners, they think that they somehow deserve a product equal to that of a corporate offering while not offering any money or code.
It's because they haven't thought about it.
They're so used to the paradigm. I pay money. I get product. I get support.
So when they get the product but they don't pay money, their brain short circuits and thinks they deserve some kind of support.
In a capitalistic world, communistic projects are confusing. Which is sad.
People like him are why I still have hope in tech. May the machine bless him eternally.
How many of those millions went to his bank account? I'm guessing not many.
he looks happy and his room looks full of fun
that's worth a million dollars if you ask me
This guy is rich as fuck. No wonder the billionaire class is so pissed.
This guy is rich as fuck. No wonder the billionaire class is so pissed.
"Oh no! Another rich person!"
It’s a turn of phrase, not a literal statement.
As far as I know he owns his house and he lives in the UK, so yeah, he's quite well off if you look at his wealth.
Of course, because no matter how many material goods they possess they'll never have the happiness of just being a genuenly good person.
Kudos to Mr. Owens and all Inkscape developers. Inkscape is a masterpiece.
Inkscape is still notably worse to use than Affinity Designer, despite having been started more than ten years earlier. Why?
I agree with you but one is a for profit product launched by a company with multiples of employees working full-time and with funding to compete with Adobe.
The other is freeware made by some dude and maybe a few volunteers in their free time out of the goodness of their heart.
You can't really compare the two.
Why you complaining about free stuff tho?
"It's free" does not mean "it can't be improved".
Then improve it yourself or donate, or wait you wont because people like you make nothing but demands
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