I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

Stefen Auris
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I don’t understand why Adobe was allowed to survive as a company when Flash player had like 500 security vulnerabilities daily.

Because marketing people wanted animatios.

@FoxBJK@midwest.social
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Users wanted games to play, too. Couldn’t do that in HTML4

Altima NEO
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and Acrobat too.

Because many companies and users were deliberately turned into illiterates about tech by big tech

Deceptichum
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When were they ever tech literate?

Chemical Wonka
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They were never but with the growth of big tech it seems that things became even worse.

I guess the first step is to ask yourself about the services that you use daily , this was my first step to understand the importance of free software and all correlate topics but each person will have its own pathway to literation.

Frog-Brawler
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Because the folks doing the work aren’t the folks paying the bills. You’ve gotta invade some country and exploit the shit out of them for several years if you expect to have enough money to have a voice!

They bought all competition for their creative suite. They werent “allowed” to survive, they made sure they were the only viable game in town and locked businesses into contracts.

Avid Amoeba
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Who’d disallow them?

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