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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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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.
People like him are why I still have hope in tech. May the machine bless him eternally.
Lost dollars because of free software and lost dollars because of piracy are both imaginary numbers.
It seems just fitting that he wears a hat that you need bezier curves to draw perfectly with vector graphics!
Based
Thank you Martin and Inkscape-team!
Ive used both inskape and illustrator and inkscape is better and has been better ux wise since day 1 for me.
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)
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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"I bought a lottery ticket and didn't win. I lost 50 millions dollars!"
- adobe
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those dollars were not adobe's to lose but users' to save
This is the heart of the matter. You can't lose what you never had.
He has a Samson Meteor microphone. Same as mine. He is cool in my book :D
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I am a Corel kind of bird myself, having used it both professionally (which is how I got started with it) and at home for a couple of decades now. I will say two things about that:
In its current version Inkscape is roughly on par with were CorelDraw was in its 4.0 state or thereabouts (which I still have a copy of, on like seventeen 3.5" floppy disks!) which sounds like damning with faint praise but it really isn't considering that Inkscape costs nothing to use.
However, one factor that I think most people don't think about is that Inkscape is currently the best software I've ever used, bar none, for ripping apart .pdf documents made by other software, for the purposes of monkeying with their contents. And that's a ten story tall flaming middle finger to Adobe, and completely obviates the need for 99.9999999% of all users to ever have to pay for the "pro" version of Adobe Acrobat or whatever they're calling it this week just to be able to made minor adjustments to a .pdf.
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I appreciate him very much, OSS maintainers and devs dont get enough praise. Also I dont get the intense entitlement some people have towards unpaid OSS devs and mainatiners, they think that they somehow deserve a product equal to that of a corporate offering while not offering any money or code.
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I'm not a pro but do some shit from time to time. Between Inkscape and Gimp I never needed anything else for images. If only Gimp had better tools for animated gifs... still serviceable tho haven't tried the new Gimp yet.
But GIMP can be improved whenever you wish, Adobe cannot
Yes that's true glaring difference between wanting to help others and wanting to rip money.
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