By the Affinity and Canva Teams

An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.run
    15·
    3 months ago

    I don’t even know what to say about this whole acquisition other than I am deeply disappointed. I am a teacher, and I bought this suite to create handouts and activities for lessons every once in a while. I often share these activities and handouts with other teachers who need ideas. I don’t use the Affinity suite frequently or in a professional-enough manner to justify dedicating any more of my long-stagnant pay rate to it, so if prices go up, I will have to stop being a customer whether I like it or not.

    • Hucklebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      They said in the post that they want to make premium features free for education.

      Also, license you bought will stay indefinitely. You can use the program you currently have. Maybe some new features won’t be available, but as a non-frequent user that should be fine :).

      • Eggyhead@kbin.run
        5·
        3 months ago

        If premium features are free for educators, I need to look into how that system works.

        I’m happy to keep my V2 license, but I guarantee V2 will be shorter lived than V1 was now that a company was acquired and costs need to be recuperated.