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Please support this! As graphic designers we should be able to use a open source OS.
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Just if the projects had a 10th of the funding of Adobe
Yes that would be awesome, probably 1% would still be big.
I have been donating to FOSS project that I rely on (or sometimes project I find important) using free and open source payment method like Bitcoin (even sometime using the Lightning Network) or Monero for two years now. I wish more people that could afford it would do the same. Obviously I don't donate as much as if I was paying for the full Adobe Creative Suite (which was included in my scholar fees) but I donated a few hundreds USD in total to various projects since 2023 and I won't stop until I am cut from my income.
And Adobe could make you pay that because they had enough money before, to do the lobbying required to make sure the institutions don't go FOSS.
Perhaps, would be a nice idea to have some uni that gives both, artistic and programming courses, have the art people interact with software being worked on by the programming people. And they could use any FOSS project for that.
That way everyone gets lots of code to look at and play with, learn skills that otherwise freshers would gravely lack (looking at other's code) and maybe also get some upstream commits ^[as a result of the art people (real users) interacting with programmers who are now also interacting with industry people (upstream maintainers)]. while greatly reducing school fees