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I admire this, tried it and it's very good. I even had a feature suggestion accepted for development.

But for some reason, unlike most tools I use, I don't actually care or have an issue with Figma not being open source.

Therefore: Figma works well, has a vibrant plugin ecosystem, lots of 3rd party design assets, can be used on any platform and in 4 years I've never needed to pay for it....

So tbh I can't find the motivation to jump ship to something else.

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Hi Steve! That's fine, the motivations we had to build Penpot won't probably overlap with a lot of people's own interests. We do believe that the design process is very quickly taking over a critical part of innovation and design+code conversations and it terrifies us that open source doesn't have a say there. We think we can bring a better community ethos to design tools, how they're built and what level of vendor lock-in they pursue. Recent changes in Figma pricing has skyrocketed monthly bills for the vast majority of companies and teams (big and small). Not only that, they have been neglected RTL support for years (top5 request ever) because they have other priorities (Penpot added RTL support a month later its Alpha launch). My background is in Physics and Computer Science and I'm your typical nerdy dev now turned into CEO but I have come to appreciate how important is that design tools are free and open for everyone. I'm also a believer in designops and bringing designers closer to the development process, I think Penpot can achieve that better than others thanks to the open source tech community.

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