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Comment by SSLy | Hacker News Reader

Canva bought Serif for their quite nice Affinity suite some time back. I wonder how this will work out long term.

The made a pledge at the time:

> 1. We are committed to fair, transparent and affordable pricing, including the perpetual licenses that have made Affinity special.

> 2. We will double down on expanding Affinity’s products through continued investment in Affinity as a standalone product suite.

> 3. We will provide Affinity free for schools and nonprofits.

> 4. We are committed to listening and being led by the design community at every step in this journey.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity-canva-pledge/

If we should trust that or not is another matter. I’m inclined not to.

I doubt they're going to work on the Affinity suite much more, it was probably more of an acquihire, where they'll get the engineers to work on the main Canva product.

What makes you say that? Canva already stated Affinity won’t be going anywhere.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity-canva-pledge/

I've used Affinity for years, it was pretty much in a feature freeze state before V2 (which didn't really add anything major). I'm fine with that, it's more capable and user friendly than GIMP and Inkscape so I was happy to pay for it.

I interpret any statement by a company to be true only in the quartile that the statement is published.

Well luckily if you've bought a licence to the Serif programs then you'll be able to use it even if the next version goes subscription only.

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