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Martin believes everyone should have access to free quality software.
Thanks so muchπ
Also shouting out Krita as a Photoshop alternative for digital painting, digital art.
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How is its CMYK profiles in your opinion?
People like him are why I still have hope in tech. May the machine bless him eternally.
You don't lose money when people use a competitors service/product over yours. That money wasn't yours to lose.
Yet, the companies cry about losing money due to online piracy. At this point it's eΕΊtremally funny
for me, anyway, they didn't lose money because if i couldn't pirate it, I just wouldn't watch. I'm told this is a common thought process
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Not the gotcha you think it is. They said competitors, piracy makes them use your own product and not pay you for it.
Would a kid buy photoshop if they had to? Probably not. Would a sketchy company? Yup.
Would a sketchy company? Yup.
Completely irrellevant to the discussion and nice ragebait, but whatever.
I don't see how it is. A kid that can't afford to buy photoshop won't buy it any more than a sketchy company would, just like how facebook much rather steal material than pay their way for it. The difference obviously being that the sketch company might very well have the capital to pay their way, they're just used to get away with it.
The point you are missing is the "had to".
The sketchy company didn't have to pay the creators for it because it was available via different means.
They would have had to, if they couldn't find it otherwise.
Of course, in that case, they would have "borrowed" it from libraries and such, but then again, the premise is that they had to, which is not being fulfilled in your example.
Tell that to all of the monopolies that have totally captured a market segment.
It seems just fitting that he wears a hat that you need bezier curves to draw perfectly with vector graphics!
Lost dollars because of free software and lost dollars because of piracy are both imaginary numbers.
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Thank you Martin and Inkscape-team!
Inkscape is good but it can't replace illustrator, especially for the needs of someone willing to pay $1000/year for it
Maybe the affinity suite is more appropriate (ROI in just 2 months of adobe subscription)
Ive used both inskape and illustrator and inkscape is better and has been better ux wise since day 1 for me.
I disagree with that framing, someone not buying your shit is not the same as you losing money. Inkscape saved millions for graphic designers, which is very different. Adobe was not entitled to that money, you can't lose something that was never yours.
Subtle distinction, but actually pretty huge. I agree with you. Companies also use this to say that pirating is stealing, when they never had the business in the first place.
Yeah. If piracy wasn't an option, I just wouldn't play those games.
So many games I have pirated that I have yet to play because there aren't enough hours in the day and I don't want to spend them all gaming.
All the money you give these corporations will be used against you someday.
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He has a Samson Meteor microphone. Same as mine. He is cool in my book :D
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So the website is super summy, finally found the "real" download button which took me to the MS app store. Ok fine, but now its been 10 minutes and it actually hasn't started downloading yet...
Are you sure you are at https://inkscape.org/ ?
Last time I downloaded it ~1 year ago I don't remember any hoops I had to jump through.
Can confirm, your link worked great, was able to directly download the installer. Thank you!
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