• Godnroc@lemmy.world
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    7 months 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.

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      7 months 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.

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        7 months 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.