[bauripalash]

> Adobe can't eat penpot!

That's the beauty of open source

[m12k]

It's kind of amazing to me that we've reached the point where using open source is not a matter of idealism, but rather risk management to guard against the threat of product regressions due to consumer-hostile takeovers.

[jcbrand]

Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably about 20 years now.

[badsectoracula]

It always has been, where do you think that idealism came from? :-P

[DC-3]

Open source began because Xerox neglected to update their printer drivers. It's always been a blend of idealism and pragmatics.

[acomjean]

Or if you want to run your software on Linux.

Its amazing how adobe isn't porting anything to Linux, despite linux being starting to be used heavily now in the creative industries with the rise of blender and tons of work being done on render farms.

Blender and Krita are really high quality stuff, so hopefully problem solved. But those teams are really small compared to adobe.

[globular-toast]

That has always been my selfish reason for using free/open source software. I agree with the principles of free software too, but even if I didn't I would be using it just so I can be in control of my own computing.

[archagon]

"Always has been."

(Also: the threat of product pivots or discontinuations.)

[Rantenki]

Not to be too inflammatory, but it's always amazing to me how people will ignore a threat as long as possible, then pretend it just appeared once they are forced to acknowledge it.

Not a perfect XKCD match, but pretty close: https://xkcd.com/743