• grue@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    71
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

    • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      48
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      It’s far more ethical to make the company lose money

      Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

      Pirate photoshop

      Delete it

      Pirate again

      Repeat 30 times

      Adobe looses 660$

      If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 month ago

        They don’t care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.

      • Rinox@feddit.it
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        That’s not at all how piracy works. They don’t lose any money by me not buying their product, the money was never theirs to lose. They can earn money if I buy it, but if I don’t, then nothing changed. It’s not like every company is entitled to my money.

        Pirating or using Gimp or Krita instead, has the exact same effect on them, ie me not buying their product.

    • x4740N@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      Gimp is behind on features and ui optimisation and krita is art focused