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I think it’s been found that people who pirate a lot of music, often buy a lot too, and just because libraries existed, people didn’t stop buying books, in fact it might even encourage it.

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It's kind of like the insane amount of privacy of Adobe products is what gave them their current near absolute monopoly over the entire market. A huge number of today's graphic designers started off with pirated copies of Photoshop only to start using legitimate copies once employed, be it cause they purchased a license or because their employers paid for a seat.

Without piracy, which was essentially a for education free trial of sorts many graphic designers would probably be using other free or cheaper alternatives

I'm curious how long that state will continue, because after all with creative cloud, even students are having to pay an exorbitant amount of money in order to learn how to use the software.

Pirating CS6 can only go on so long, right? After a while its ui will simply be too out of date compared to the current cc offering right?

Interesting thought.

How is GIMP coming along these days?

Any other open source projects people recommend?

Blender is one of the best pieces of 3D modelling software on the market, and it's open source.

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