Hi All, I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family. This is a moment of great excitement, anticipation, and profound gratitude for all of you who have been part of our story so far. We know that those of you who’ve put your faith in Affinity, some since we launched our ve...
    • @Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      Yeah, very worried. Why would they purchase something unless they thought it would be profitable? I don’t want profitable software, I want fairly priced software.

      • @abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -10•1 year ago

        I don’t want profitable software

        What? You want all the software companies you depend on to go bankrupt?

        I want fairly priced software

        Canva is free for basic features and reasonably priced if you want features that cost them money such as 24/7 phone support, access to their stock artwork library, storing up to a terabyte of documents on their servers, etc.

        I get the hesitation - we don’t know what they’re going to do with the affinity suite, but I wouldn’t immediately assume it will be ruined.

        • Encrypt-KeeperEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          Given the context I don’t think they meant profitable as “The software makes a profit” but that the acquisition would be profitable given the costs to acquire it. The acquiring company likely has no attachment to the software itself and only sees a bunch of cows (customers) for milking.