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Adobe stole my creative suite
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This is what drives people to piracy. Then they whine about how pirates cost them money.
What's fumny to me is I remember watching a computer show on TV in late 90s they where interviewing an Adobe representative about the new Photoshop 5.0...
The TV host asked what adobe though about pirated copies and the representative said on LIVE TV that Photoshop price was for professional who make a living out of Photoshop and that any hobbyist had nothing to fear about using a pirated copy as it only served to get more people knowledgable about Photoshop and if these started doing business in photography and neede Photoshop they would then pay for it so to not be unprofessional.
I remember this as well. Their whole stance was that they'd get everyone using Photoshop even if people had to pirate it. That's part of how it became the industry standard.
Metallica vs. Napster
Same story, retold by adobe
Probably weren't public by then.
Microsoft low key had the same stance back in the late 80s to mid 90s and it definitely helped cement their dominance.
They didn't whine about it even once here. They whined about their own untrustworthiness, which I can't argue with.