Comment on TechSpot can't help but sellout in their own editor picks

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The idea is that even if you’re using pirates windows, you’re still in the windows ecosystem, you’ll be more likely to pay Microsoft for other things. So in a weird way, yeah you didn’t pay for windows, but you also didn’t buy an Apple either, and now you’re using windows apps and programs.

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This was Adobe’s strategy with Photoshop. They basically let the piracy happen knowing everyone would learn and stick with their software.

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    • ahornsirup@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And it worked. Try finding any professional art/design jobs that don’t use Adobe.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Seeing how trivial it is to circumvent that “DRM” it had to be intentional

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