You are a senior executive at Adobe.

The CEO of Adobe summons you in his office.

You are in charge of creating a secret task force. The goal is to systematically undermine open source software such as Krita, Inkscape, Kdenlive or GIMP. You have a $50 million budget. Nobody in the company knows about this project except you and Adobe’s CEO.

What would you do?


Delete all of my internal databases. Necessity is the mother of invention, so starting at a disadvantage would be a catalyst to churn out even better software!
Delete your own databases, the AI method of software development?