Proprietary Subscription Software: was Photoshop

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Ok, throw mud on my head.... or tomatoes at my face....

I use the subscription Canva : https://www.canva.com/ .  Normally I 
would not subscribe to a design software.  In this case it made sense 
since I will consistently need 4 - 20+ pictures a month and the ability 
to make them into whatever I need.

For $12.95/mo I can use any image I want and edit anyway I want.  Images 
can get pricy... so I save money and the Canva editor is very feature 
rich and is easy to use.

And by the way they have hundreds of thousands images.  I have found/and 
used lots of high quality images and they are free with the pro 
subscription.



On 2022-08-31 07:15, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Check out VimOutliner. The first thing to do is change the precommand
> from "\\" to
> ".." It was changed by the maintainer after the maintainer after me to
> fulfill some
> Debian mandate. I might fork the darn thing and bring it back to its 
> true roots.
> 
> When I designed VimOutliner, I made sure to include every feature of
> the Grandview
> outliner, except clone headlines, which can't be done with a Vim 
> engine.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 12:24 -0700, Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Good to see another Grandview user here!  I originally used PC-Outline 
>> that
>> was included with WordStar all those years ago, but later found 
>> Grandview
>> was an upgraded version.  I run it now under DosBox.  (WordStar, too, 
>> when
>> I really need to write seriously.)  I'm really surprised that there is
>> still no open source outlining program similar to Grandview.
>> 
>> *Thank goodness* Linux can run those old proprietary programs.
>> 
>> I would rather have a bag of mosquitoes tied around my head than 
>> subscribe
>> to online proprietary software.  No way I'm going to be chained to a
>> treadmill.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 08:56 -0700, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > > Adobe doesn't sell CS6 anymore; they're all about the subscription.
>> > >
>> >
>> > What's really cool about the proprietary subscription model is that once
>> > you're not
>> > subscribed, you've lost your data. Who wouldn't enjoy a situation like
>> > that?
>> >
>> > I don't want any of you to think I'm trying to get sympathy, but in 1990 I
>> > started
>> > using a spectacular drawing program called Micorgrafx Windows Draw (MGX
>> > Draw), and
>> > made hundreds of drawings with it. In the late 1990's MGX Draw was sold to
>> > a company
>> > operating out of a PO box, who promptly sunk it but wouldn't release the
>> > source.
>> > Unfortunately for me, I still had the install disk, so even today I have
>> > the option
>> > of running MGX Draw on Wine in order to access my drawings from the
>> > 1990's. Totally
>> > unacceptable. WordPerfect 5.1 is worse: Being a DOS program all I need to
>> > do is copy
>> > the WordPerfect 5.1 install directory to my Linux drive, run it under
>> > FreeDOS, and
>> > access all my 1980's Wordperfect files. This is a horrible invasion of the
>> > past.
>> >
>> > When it came to an outline processor called Grandview, I solved this
>> > problem even
>> > though Grandview wasn't a subscription. I lost the install CD and the
>> > executable
>> > tree, so now I cannot look at my Grandview files at all. This is how
>> > computing
>> > should work: Data over 7 years old must be discarded!
>> >
>> > Subscription software solves this problem elegantly. Imagine your joy when
>> > you go to
>> > open an old file, only to find that you no longer have an executable with
>> > which to
>> > look at the file. Then you might as well no longer back it up, keeping
>> > your backups
>> > smaller.
>> >
>> > I just love proprietary subscription software!
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>> >
>> >
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