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He mentioned it was actually discussed internally, and although Adobe recognizes that there are far more copies of stuff like Photoshop and Acrobat running out there than their license sales would justify, they donвЂ™t care. It started off by me asking why they donвЂ™t release a cut-rate version of Adobe Acrobat for consumers without the bells and whistles so people wouldnвЂ™t feel obligated to warez it, and this evolved into a discussion about Photoshop. ItвЂ™s funny, I had a discussion with a buddy of mine when he was working at Adobe about this very topic.

At least itвЂ™s making your product more popular I suppose. Of course, you can say these people shouldnвЂ™t have the priviledge of using your software. That percentage is and always has been ZERO! No matter how many leechers you see, youвЂ™re not going to get a percentage of those people. How are pirates hurting the industry? They wonвЂ™t buy your stuff anyways. If he now doesnвЂ™t seem to like that then itвЂ™s all a bit late now, and he picked the wrong business, didnвЂ™t he?

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Once you have a software product off the deck (thatвЂ™s where the real up-front costs are), any costs in producing and distributing it are quite negligible, and it gets steadily easier thereafter. This CEO is 100% justfied to complain about the situation.ДЄs the CEO of a reasonably successful software company IвЂ™m sure heвЂ™s able to pay off his mortgage and live reasonably comfortably compared with people in other professions. Anyone else will simply pirate it, and if it magically canвЂ™t be pirated then those people just wonвЂ™t use it вЂ“ eventually dragging down its profile and popularity as a result -). The acid test of whether people want to buy the software is вЂIs it good and does the company really give me something for my money?вЂ™. ItвЂ™s just a foolвЂ™s errand looking for foolвЂ™s gold, that doesnвЂ™t even exist, that many software companies are on here. The proportion of people who pay for the software who would otherwise have simply pirated it and didnвЂ™t because they ran into difficult anti-piracy measures, is absolutely negligible. Indeed, those who are going to pirate it still do, those who are going to buy it still do (businesses certainly will), and in a vain effort to try and stop the pirates the company will have to put in more development time and incur greater and greater support costs. The cost of doing all this doesnвЂ™t seem to have accomplished, or be justified by, any reduction in piracy at all. The net effect of those measures are that it creates deployment and support issues for genuine customers, thereby putting them off, and increases support and development costs in a big way for the company involved. Many software companies have tried to remedy this situation by trying to put in technical restrictions to try and prevent piracy. The alternative to this is that their software is not well known and not popular, and they have far less in sales and revenue than they do now to the point where theyвЂ™d border on bankruptcy.

The reason why they вЂget pirated to deathвЂ™ is because their software is well known and it is popular, and the reason why it is well known and popular is a lot of people went out and bought it in the first place. There is not вЂњFreeвЂќ alternative for what these guys are offering.

Not because it hurts FOSS (which it does) but because it undermines the very basis of our philosophy. If you believe in FOSS, you really have to condemn piracy.

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GPL and other FOSS licenses, even BSD, are grounded in the right of the creator to specify how his creations, both source code and binary, are used. The pirates donвЂ™t consider FOSS because, as you say, itвЂ™s easier to just pirate MS Office. Meanwhile, FOSS competes at a disadvantage, because heck, the proprietary stuff is a вЂњfreebieвЂќ anyway. While some of them *might* buy the product if they canвЂ™t get it any other way, IвЂ™m convinced that piracy hurts FOSS *more* than it hurts the products being pirated, which at least gain mind share, which has tangible value.

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What bothers me is that thereвЂ™s lot of people out there that already know about the free alternatives and prefer to use commercial pirated software just out of lazyness or unwilling to learn (the many times) few differences between the mainstream commercial apps and the free ones.Д®xcellent point, chocobanana.