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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by galaxi@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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.

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[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 69 points 1 year ago

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

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago

and Acrobat too.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

When were they ever tech literate?

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Because marketing people wanted animatios.

[-] FoxBJK@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Users wanted games to play, too. Couldn't do that in HTML4

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Who'd disallow them?

[-] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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!

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