NIK Software Petition

[John 2]

I don't know if anyone wants to support this?

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions...phy-alive.html

[Donald]

Signed.

[Mike Buckley]

Now that Donald proved that the website is legitimate, I also signed. Even so, considering that less than 400 people signed it in the first three weeks, there's virtually no hope in Google paying any attention to it.

[billtils]

377 now. Perhaps the issue is where the petition came from - as in nowhere of any relevance/interest to photographers?

[plugsnpixels]

Noble gesture, but don't hold your breath. Has Adobe listened to the pleading Freehand and GoLive masses? No... Google is surely no different.

That said, I just heard about (but haven't tried) a "bridge" from MediaChance that lets you run 32-bit plug-ins in a 64-bit environment.

[BrianA61]

Here is what I wrote in the comments. Might be pissing into the wind on this, but, I've done my small, insignificant part.

Best editing software I've used. This needs continued support. If it is not, I refuse to be forced into continuing to pour money into more software. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it until it is" is my motto.

[Mike Buckley]

I sent notice of the petition to PetaPixel.com, which is a photography news website I follow daily that commonly republishes information initially published by others. Perhaps they will post information about the petition and then perhaps a lot more people will sign it.

[mugge]

Signed

[DanK]

I signed, but I think it is almost certainly spitting into the wind. Google doesn't sell other photo software, so what is the threat to them posed by a small number of disgruntled photographers? One could threaten to use an alternative search engine--I generally use DuckDuckGo for security reasons anyway (search for it), but Google gets 1.2 TRILLION hits per year on its search engine, so we wouldn't even be noticed.

One person speculated that they took it over because they were interested in using some of its code in Snapchat, and if they have done that, that gives them an incentive not to release the code into the open-source world.

[Mike Buckley]

I think Dan means Snapseed, not Snapchat. I assumed from the very beginning that Google bought Nik because of Snapseed but I had no idea that the same code was used in both. If enough of the important code is in both, Dan is surely correct that it will never become open-source.

[billtils]

I generally use DuckDuckGo for security reasons anyway (search for it), ...
One person speculated that they took it over because they were interested in using some of its code in Snapchat, and if they have done that, that gives them an incentive not to release the code into the open-source world.

Glad to see another DDG user here! I did not know about the Snapseed possibility but it makes sense.

[lunaticitizen]

I don't think Google will ever release the source code. They are probably still using at least some parts of it with Snapseed. It's like hoping Google will release its search algorithm code; there is just no way they will do that.

[IzzieK]

Signed and shared on my Facebook and Twitter accounts, too.

[paintingwithlight]

As of just now 403 signatures.