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Each focal area is getting DRIs, and we're doing cross-cutting work to make everything componetizable and cross-platform.
We're scaling up the scope of our mission and ambition, too. We view software freedom as not just applications, but also infrastructure and weights. There are a lot of things we want to contribute to ensure the OpenAIs and Anthropics don't become the next extractive monopolies.
> Does the stability approach, say, Photopea?
We had some debate internally about whether to begin diverging the project from what Adobe does and begin innovating on our own.
We instead decided that 100% feature parity is the goal. Parity is a milestone for us because it validates what we've done, and it also serves the muscle memory of the tens of thousands of Adobe users.
After we hit parity, we can easily turn our applications into entirely new ones with more opinionated UI/UX and net new features.
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> We view software freedom as not just applications, but also infrastructure and weights.. to ensure the OpenAIs and Anthropics don't become the next extractive monopolies.
Love to see this rebellious spirit of sovereignty and collective action. It's what made the "hacker culture" great.
Seeing the meteoric success of the ArtCraft series of applications, I'm hopeful and looking forward to the positive disruption of the industry, by the makers, for the makers - and screw the takers.
Wouldn't the milestone keep moving since Adobe will also introduce new features? What if the way you moved and the way Adobe does make 100% feature parity incompatible? Like when you say 100% parity, you mean a frozen-in-time feature set or always be 100% of what Photoshop does?
Speaking as someone who uses Adobe apps on a regular basis, I care more about file format compatibility and correctness than feature compatibility. Obviously the two concerns overlap.
But I'd much rather have bulletproof linked file support than "concept to vector" or "live paint" (as cool as those are)