Date: 2022/08/13 - Scribus vs the piracy? - Themes: Free Software, document design, opinions

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The DiCaprio Pointing meme picture

Spent some times thinking about what Benn Jordan said in this video

At some point in the video he show how far you wanna go for a cracked version of software and avoiding paying a licence. and talk about how unsafe is Rutracker and torrenting and one of the good way of avoiding that is. yeah you got it. Paying for the damn thing.

However he don't talk about something important here. More important than the blend money excuse for software piracy. Yes.
School Education.

Building the camp

for real this is a more elaborate rent on top of the picture on the right, but keep up.

So he doesn't talk about school education in a video about justification for software piracy, what's wrong there? Well i did an art school. Still don't see it? In art schools like many other kind of schools also we are taught to use proprietary software and those are bound by expensive licences.

Nothing weird here? Many people including myself learned to use Adobe's Creative Suite. I had evaluations on those. when i passed the years with my diploma i still had my weird licences from school but i wanted to learn more and upgrade from a old CS3 to CS5 because in a job they maybe use the latest versions.

And putting myself in someone else's shoes it could have not been that easy to... be a pirate for just be sure to maintaining the knowledge of it.

back in time

Really blaming on schools there. Back then maybe it wasn't easy to trust something like The Blender Foundation with only few support by the pros. Maybe it's still hard to trust rock solid projects that have many sponsors and supports by now. But today it's weird. I only talk about graphics software here but seeing Unfa, a music producer, composer, songwriter doing a tremendous work working only with free and open source software, i find hard to think about schools unable to work a little more with those

build new roots

All this background can't prevent me from learning those. It's true. I talked about projects that have a lot of support and insights from many users out there. I think Scribus don't. I try to replace every single one of those proprietary & expensive software with free and open source software. I used mostly Illustrator and InDesign, their equivalents are Inkscape and Scribus.

Everything is better when you don't have the stress of getting broke. I think both suffer from the same thing as every other FOSS project. Being consistant, better but FOSS projects are usually unfounded, leaving behind tired and demotivated devs.

About the rent: Scribus and InDesign are different, but it's not a bad thing. The main thing that makes Scribus a pain to use is the absence of stuff that makes the other ashtoningly awesome to use like the related snapping on InDesign is awesome. And 20 years of using one is hard to erase.

Some stuff don't work and 1.5/1.6 is still young. But fonts that don't work as they should, that's kinda hard. By the way it was the Zilla Slab Highlight font, yeah the Mozilla font.

Do you even lift bro?

As i said, rebuilding knowledge from something you spent a lot of time in it is hard especially when you were obliged to by teachers. I still dont use Inkscape and Scribus when i meant to use advanced stuff from Illustrator or InDesign. Being taught to use layers at the begining when both have terrible gestion of layers is hard. I gladly use them for real simple tasks

But i will use more Scribus when it will have maybe more maturity, fixing fonts is not something i like or do. especially when LibreOffice can process it right