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haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

That's the sh*ty part: it doesn't matter.

Adobe makes buckets of money from their software and they can and maybe will use some of that amount to sue that guy not because what he's doing is illefal, but with the intention of stopping him from continuing his work by making him too worried about that can happen and because he'll have to spend lots of money in legal fees from his own lawyers that he'll have to give up and move on.

That's the secret power of these big corporations, that they can win by making others go bankrupt while trying to defend themselves from baseless lawsuits.

I'll have to push back on that a bit. There are dozens of paid or free source image editors out there, many of them deeply integrating features from Adobe's portfolio, such as being compatible and/or using their filters and file formats.

It's just like there are multiple free alternatives for all of Microsoft's products, some of which are very blatant Excel or Word clones, despite 365 being a 10x larger revenue market than all of Adobe put together.

Which is no small wonder with their pricing.

W got an IT support guy specifically for Adobe-related issues. As such, he needed a full license for all their products. The result: His monthly salary (making close to 50k a year) is less than the cost of his Adobe licenses the company has to pay just for him each month - and it’s not even close!

At the same time, every single employee has a full Microsoft 365 account, and if they want any Adobe license, they have to request them separately, one license at a time, even if they’d need the entire Adobe creative suite…