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AI Threatens to Destroy Adobe. But Don’t Be Too Quick to Gloat: It’s Destroying Software Itself
Cory Doctorow calls it asbestos in the walls. Linus Torvalds calls it a horrible idea for maintenance. A free Photoshop clone shows what they mean.
It’s sad, but hardly surprising, that people hate big, established corporations.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tesla, and the rest all started out as innovative companies promising everyone the miracle of technology. We believed them, and we were grateful. But then they turned into greedy, vile, inhuman monsters.
Now they care about nothing but profit. Their good intentions are long gone. Morality has been sacrificed to greed. Employees have been reduced to means of production. CEOs act like sociopaths in disguise, and you can’t believe a single word they say.
So when something bad happens to one of these companies, everyone says the same thing: serves the bastards right.
And now a huge calamity (some would say “Finally!”) has struck Adobe.
An Atlanta developer, Brandon Thomas, has put up on GitHub free clones of Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, After Effects, InDesign, Premiere, and Lightroom. All of it is written in…
