So all software is free as in money now?

A few weeks ago I was up late in my kitchen. I've always been a bad sleeper, starting from when I was 10 and would spend whole nights reading books and watching the clock slowly wind it way to when I had to get up and go to school. Like most things, I hoped it would go away when I was older and instead has now become something I've just gotten used to. My friends all know this about me, so I'm typically who you call if you also can't sleep or have a sick baby and want to speak to another adult. It's whatever the opposite of a superpower is. It was during this period I got a text message from a friend with the line "someone has made the Adobe Suite with AI and it's free". Without any additional thought I proclaimed to my empty kitchen with its too-small European refrigerator "that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard". There is frankly nothing worse than the endless cycle in tech of "we've cracked a hard problem in an easy low effort way". Every single time there is always a…

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