I’m all for challenging Adobe, but the journalist should ask how and why these competing products are free. What are the implications of that in the long run? I was happy to pay a reasonable price for the Affinity suite, and it becoming free actually worries me. Free isn’t something a company does unless they’re going to crank up the price later, or carry ads, or spy on you, or steal your creations, or lock you in, or all of the above. It’s pretty shallow how the article just stops at “free is great”.