[paxys]

If I promise to pay you $100 for a job (and sign a contract saying so), you spend $50 of your own money in preparation for that job, and then I back out saying "that money was imaginary since I never actually paid you", are you not entitled to some compensation?

[michaelmrose]

Why would you believe that adobe spent meaningful sums of money in preparation to service a license to run software on the users own hardware?