throwaway532

  Is spending $10'000 to legitimize their software use the difference between success and failure?

yes, im sure there isn't $10k in budget to spend on photoshop for everyone etc.

the company doesn't even have revenue let alone profit, it is a 5 person early stage startup. that 'transition' is far far away. i guess im just used to doing the right thing regardless of circumstance.

as i said i have thought about what i would suggest instead but there are few options for photoshop. fortunately i dont have to make slide decks i was just giving that as a wider example in the company.

i use foss where i can anyway, but as i said gimp (the only real foss image editor out there) isn't a replacement to photoshop and illustrator.

i am a developer but i still need to do some gfx work for product flows etc

as a small angel round funded company not making any money there just isn't the budget, is my guess.

just to say, it is not a yc company.

the adobe one has a keygen thing, the rest are network file shares with license in a txt file.