Fuck Adobe. They need to open source everything they’ve ever built to atone for the incalculable damage they’ve done to the world of digital art.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person could do for humanity today is to join the ranks at Adobe with the sole intention of leaking every last line of source code. They bought up all of their competitors in the entire creative software ecosystem without so much as a peep from regulators. If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee. Literally, they are the landlords putting profits directly in the way of digital creativity.
Not only would forced-open-sourcing their IP warchest force Adobe to stop charging so much (because “clean room rewrites” of their cash cow apps would start appearing everywhere) it would force them to admit that they employ shit software engineers that pile spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. They’re drowning in technical debt because they have no competition and have no reason to innovate. So they just tack bullshit on top and slap some marketing and AI hype on it and call it a day.
Fuck Adobe. They need to open source everything they’ve ever built to atone for the incalculable damage they’ve done to the world of digital art.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person could do for humanity today is to join the ranks at Adobe with the sole intention of leaking every last line of source code. They bought up all of their competitors in the entire creative software ecosystem without so much as a peep from regulators. If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee. Literally, they are the landlords putting profits directly in the way of digital creativity.
Not only would forced-open-sourcing their IP warchest force Adobe to stop charging so much (because “clean room rewrites” of their cash cow apps would start appearing everywhere) it would force them to admit that they employ shit software engineers that pile spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. They’re drowning in technical debt because they have no competition and have no reason to innovate. So they just tack bullshit on top and slap some marketing and AI hype on it and call it a day.