Well, Adobe is trying to purchase Figma but is running into regulatory concerns. Their entire reason for making this free to students is to hopefully drown out the negative attention from it being .
That said, Figma is not intended to be an Adobe replacement. Adobe is attempting to buy it to bring it into the fold so that they have a more robust collaborative UI design toolkit.
They're called taxes and infrastructure subsidies. The problem here, oversimplified, are twofold:
1. We already paid "Big Telco" billions for infrastructure and they pissed it away.
2. We allow all companies to not pay their fair share and thus the revenues are down.
Governing and taxation are broken.
https://www.reuters.com/techno...
There really isn't any reason at all to link to a site that has a wall when the same information is available elsewhere.
The only way to get me back (and I assume many others):
1. Spez is immediately removed and gets no $ on IPO for breaking just about every ethical rule in the book. He is a piece of shit human not only for this but many other issues over the years.
2. API access is restored and is reasonably priced. They don't get to determine that price; the market does and the market has spoken.
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