RE: In Response To A Defender Of Corpware
As someone who actually uses Adobe Creative Cloud, I haven't been able to find alternatives to the ease of the workflow across multiple programs/apps. I can easily plug in content between apps pretty seamlessly and they have been improving the intuitiveness of it all since moving to the CC platform.
That being said, I do not like the $50/month cost to use the products and not actually have the option to end the service and keep the ability to use the software. I don't like the "choice" of either being locked into a platform or losing all of my templates and projects. Are there any alternatives to Adobe CC that can actually cover all of their various programs and essentially work as seamless as Adobe? I do a lot of image/video work and have started using their app for creating websites without doing any coding. Are there other opensource products for this that you know of?
Also - what are your thoughts on programs like Avast for protection? I've used that in the past and thought it was pretty good.
I don't know of any similar feature, but I can certainly do without it at that cost. In no way does the time-saving of the feature justify the price-tag. Personally I am willing to sacrifice quite a lot not to ever get entangled in closed software.
It is the price we HAVE to pay for free (libre) software to get the adoption needed to surpass the parasitic bloat-wares. That's kind of the point of my rants, if you like organic heirloom food, you don't subscribe to the convenience-services and products of Craft foods, Monsatan, DuPont, Nestle and so on. You get your ass over to the farmers market, where the fruits might not be humongus and super-glossy, but you know they contain actual nutrients, and not just water and toxins. Or at least you start reading product information in the grocery store before lazily piling up in the trolley. Always vote with your dollars!
Avast? The anti-virus? It is of no use to a Linux user, since Linux are virtually free of viruses. I have never used any AV, malware-detector or firewall in Linux, and I have never had a virus. In winblows I had viruses all the time, "despite" running AV and other software for fighting malware. The constant, unending war that will never be won. Unless you uninstall the virus "Windows" that is.
Anti-virus businesses in general are mostly scammy as far as I'm concerned. It makes perfect sense for ANY AV producer to also produce some viruses, so they can prove how fast and efficient they are at detecting and removing them. I'm just guessing now, but Avast and Kaspersky is probably the most notorious at this practice, despite their obvious, expected and complete denial. We can assume most others are doing the same, or they could not compete with the rankings of those who do. This is a GREAT example of why closed source is so detrimental and self-corrupting. Just like governments and other parasitical revenue-generators.