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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
I doubt Adobe lose money due to piracy. Kids getting Photoshop for free then learning it means it is worldwide the program for image work and then licenses are paid for once it comes to doing real work for a business later.
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
...that was... my point exactly...?
Adobe is one of those in the past that has made insane claims about losses that basically assumes that every install is 600.00 lost when its clearly not true. Not saying piracy is ok... just saying it doesn't help their case to talk about financial losses to a bunch of asshole kids trying to fight back against "the man" by stealing their software and insisting it should be free. In fact, its the exact wrong thing to say in my opinion.
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If they wanted people to learn it so liberally I'm sure they would go about it differently.
I know Iowa State University Engineering students get full access to all of Microsofts products (Visual Studios Ultimate, all the os versions, other developer tools) because they are being groomed by MS. Most students except, graphic design, do no get direct access to adobe's suite. All students can get access to adobe by simply walking into the graphic design building and logging into one of the macs, some of the library computers have them.
I talked to a kid that intern with adobe, he was in charge of optimization of their main pages for all their traffic. He told me they had meetings about how bad piracy was and methods to go about solving it.
Most people don't need PS, most never become graphic designer, MS Paint and a few other products are sufficient for ma and pa.