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🇺🇸 AI just cloned all of Adobe’s main apps and is giving them away…FOR FREE Atlanta developer Brandon Thomas rebuilt Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator using Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust. Seven apps, zero subscription fees, completely open source. Yeah, software giants ain't go
01 THE MACHINE READ
WHY IT MATTERS.
Open-source AI clones of creative software threaten subscription moats of incumbent software vendors.
AI commoditization pressures software subscriptions
Adoption of open-source alternatives
Clones may lack enterprise support
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🇺🇸 AI just cloned all of Adobe’s main apps and is giving them away…FOR FREE Atlanta developer Brandon Thomas rebuilt Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator using Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust. Seven apps, zero subscription fees, completely open source. Yeah, software giants ain't going to like this one bit. Source: Gizmodo / Writer: Bri
02 THE STORY SO FAR
THE RECORD, IN ORDER.
STANDALONE ITEM — NOT YET FOLDED INTO A DEVELOPING STORY.
03 WHO'S INVOLVED
ENTITIES ON FILE.
04 RECEIPTS
THE SOURCE RECORD.
1 SOURCES CONFIRMED05 PROPAGATION
WHAT THIS TOUCHES.
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