Comment on TechSpot can't help but sellout in their own editor picks
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 months agoThe 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.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
This was Adobe’s strategy with Photoshop. They basically let the piracy happen knowing everyone would learn and stick with their software.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 11 months ago
And it worked. Try finding any professional art/design jobs that don’t use Adobe.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 11 months ago
Seeing how trivial it is to circumvent that “DRM” it had to be intentional