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by cosmodisk 1464 days ago
Photoshop being easy to pirate was a feature for Apple: the uptake was absolutely insane across all possible levels and eventually nobody uses anything else. Same with Microsoft in 90s: when students asked Bill what he's planning to do with the whole China copying it, he replied that let them get used to it and we'll find a way to charge later.
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*a feature for Adobe, not Apple