--- title: Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? description: Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? Figma is one of the most impressive web standards-compliant tools in recent memory. It's a bitter pill... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-buys-figma-what-does-this-mean-for-web-standards--y6wvipsoe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? | daily.dev og:description: Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? Figma is one of the most impressive web standards-compliant tools in recent memory. It's a bitter pill... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-buys-figma-what-does-this-mean-for-web-standards--y6wvipsoe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Y6WvIpSOe.png og:image:alt: Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 4 min read · 49 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? Figma is one of the most impressive web standards-compliant tools in recent memory. It's a bitter pill for Figma users, especially since Figma was originally marketed as an open web alternative to Adobe’s proprietary desktop tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@magicnight** · 6 upvotes > It means dooms day. Giant corporations are not philanthropists. You will pay more every month. **@shashoto** · 3 upvotes > It means there are no standards left. We are going back to the stone age. **@nelcapetown** · 3 upvotes > I used to maintain an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription in spite of the fact that I'm a developer and only a hobbyist graphic designer/photographer. But their price just kept going up and up and after a few years it was just no longer justifiable. > > I hope this is not the first indication that they have now started focusing their greedy gaze on the open source market, which in their world view probably means unlimited potential for ever increasing profit. > > I enjoyed using Illustrator and Photoshop, but now I am quite versed in gimp and Inkscape and I have not yet come across anything that I... **@cyrus7\_darus10** · 2 upvotes > This can also bring opportunities to other open web alternatives. **@craftogrammer** · 1 upvotes > This means figma_amtlib.dll --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#adobe](https://daily.dev/tags/adobe), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-buys-figma-what-does-this-mean-for-web-standards--y6wvipsoe) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-buys-figma-what-does-this-mean-for-web-standards--y6wvipsoe","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/adobe-buys-figma-what-does-this-mean-for-web-standards--y6wvipsoe"},"datePublished":"2022-09-16T15:44:44.080Z","dateModified":"2022-09-16T15:44:44.006Z","description":"Adobe Buys Figma: What Does this Mean for Web Standards? 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Giant corporations are not philanthropists. You will pay more every month.","datePublished":"2022-09-17T14:07:00.052Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Y6WvIpSOe#c-9zb4xUqqM","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kefeng Zhou","url":"https://daily.dev/magicnight","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gi6pb8LhRqE5m76fKjesq6w6raMDOOEf89yJHRGUt4=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It means there are no standards left. 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