The question is who and when first blinks.
Other countries won't care and let people reverse engineer away.
but you dont need a $10k piece of hardware to do piracy.
They'll make high bandwidth/memory devices something that is more difficult to acquire (e.g., you have to license it and be subject to auditing).
Molon labe
On the one hand, everyone gets all the software they could ever want now. That's cool. On the other hand, the entire profession and industry is soon worthless. That's a lot of lost jobs and companies. We are not ready for this level of change this fast.
> recreation of the Adobe suite.
I think it's also worth touching on the concept of good enough. Most studios have been building software which is FAR past good enough. Most people use a few features in any given app and rarely venture outside of that. Most people never experience any of the recorded bugs. They're just trucking along. I think this Adobe suite clone is good enough for most people.
Do you expect future attempts to be worse or better?
Yes there are alternatives, but people resist change when they need to learn new workflows.
Not that I want it -- my tokens are not free -- but it's here. Up for grabs.
I think I’m going to have a crack at with with Claude and REA this weekend, if nothing else comes up.