On jeudi 20 août 2020 17:18:22 CEST [email protected] wrote: > Jack, > > I do indeed think that I also will not be able to easily convince friends to > use darktable. As an amateur, my reason for trying to use dt has to do with > the subscription model that is being established more and more by software > publishers. Not only by Adobe, also Microsoft does that with Office 365. So > you might convince your friends as follows. > You may or may not like the subscription model, but buying the software and upgrades wasn't cheap either (afaik, yearly costs came to about the same amount).
> “If you don't want to be held in hostage financially with your own > collection of photos in the catalog, you should consider leaving Lightroom. > Because you cannot control the price and the easiness of access to your own > work in the catalog.” > As for being held hostage: if you stop paying for LR etc., you will not be able to easily modify your existing edits, true. Otoh, if for whatever reason you can no longer use darktable, you'll find yourself in the exact same situation... In both cases, you'll still have your original files and any edits you exported to an external file (jpg, tiff, png, ...) And in both cases, if you write sidecar files, you'll have access to all the metadata as well (if they weren't written with the exports). > Furthermore, I don't really trust Capture One in that area either. There is > speculation that they also may apply a subscription only model in the > future. Keep in mind that those (windows) programs are written and maintained by large corporations, with a *paid* staff of programmers, documentation writers etc. There is no way that a free open source program like darktable can reach a similar level of staffing. Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
