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[malymin]

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Our current system of corporate ownership of intellectual property, and the way corporations take advantage of their ownership of patents, copyrights, etc, is damaging to the ability to not just experience art, but make art - and use many other tools, besides.

Something needs to change.

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[zenigotchas]

I think about something similar a lot: Namely the issue that nowadays so many things are just online with no way to download 'em. It would be so easy to lose an entire set of tools for your art if the people running the program decide to pull the plug on it or hell, if you just aren't online that day.

After I read that last article you posted I'll try to remember to watch this (please slow down on posting interesting things. jk)

[malymin]

GOD really I'm so frustrated by how much of everything is web-apps, or "on the cloud", and not something I can easily archive away on my hard drive.

This is very unrelated, but I've fantasized from time to time about an "offline post drafter" application - a sort of web-oriented (rather than print-oriented) word processor, with both a "rich text" editor/view and a "code" editor/view, designed for typing+formatting up social media drafts to save as html+inline css, markdown, or bbcode. I feel increasingly insecure relying on on-site draft functions to save my in-progress essays, especially when my local internet has been very spotty. And writing up my posts in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer, then copying to the drafting fuction of this site or tumblr or what ave you, often involves me having to fix bugs in the formatting in some way or another.

Something like BlueGriffon runs offline, but is far more big and powerful than what I want or need for the purposes here. What I really want is something like this, but running entirely offline. And that seems to, just... not exist? And any site-based application like this one runs into the same problem of getting used to, and potentially losing, good socmed-specific posting interfaces. ("Wow I really like the Tumblr post editor...oh they've changed it and now I find it harder to type up longposts in because of how the page is formatted. Oh I really like the Cohost post editor interface... oh the site is closing.")