To Adobe - its executives, managers, and shareholders.

You have decided to sunset Adobe Animate. It's your product. This is your prerogative. However, recognise that this represents a spit in the face to some of your most loyal customers. It's a bat to the kneecap of an already struggling animation industry. And up to the point of writing, the only reason for it that has become public knowledge is simply that you have created a product so competent that you can't find other things to change about it to sell new versions each year. It reads to the professionals, hobbyists, and viewers who've enjoyed the program over the years, as though a failure to extort infinite money means scrapping the entire product.

It is an outrage, an insult, and a waste of a perfectly serviceable piece of software.

There is one last opportunity.

One last saving grace that can help you save face.

If you no longer have interest in profiting from Adobe Animate, if there is no monetary sum that would keep it going, then the solution is simple: Give it away.

Strip the cloud computing aspects, anything that requires your own servers to run, and make it open source and available under a Creative Commons license. Honestly we never liked the cloud stuff anyway.

You may no longer see the value of this particular digital toolbox, but we, the animation community - professionals, amateurs, viewers alike - still do. We have poured years, in some cases decades, of our lives into using this software. We've made movies, TV shows, webseries, memes, games, and everything in between. We want to continue doing so. Maybe there's not infinite money to be made off Adobe Animate, but there is infinite creativity, infinite inspiration, infinite fun, to be had with it. Open sourcing Adobe Animate allows us to keep creating, and allows your legacy to live on past you.

So please, turn this act of greed into an act of generosity. Show some sign that you give a shit about the people who've stuck by you throughout everything over the years. We poured our time and money into you, and all we ask is this one final favor for us.

Thank you.