Comment by halotrope

The increasing consolidation in the professional software market is concerning to say the least. I remember back in the day Macromedia made fine authoring software like Flash and Director, the best lightweight vector software Pagemaker and others. Since adobe gobbled them up they have a quasi Monopoly on design and publishing tooling. Everything became a slow, entangled, expensive mess now called "Creative Suite". Same with Autodesk and how they turned e.g Maya from one of the greatest software packages of all time into a bug-ridden shadow of its former self. Tools like Blender and KiCad really get my hopes high that we have a century of industry standard open source software with good UX ahead of us. I would be much more to e.g pay 50 bucks a month to blender foundation than being a hostage of Creative Cloud. I am very happy that Altium decided the way they did.