Switched to GIMP from Photoshop probably 15 years ago. Adobe didn't lose any money, however, I've always pirated from those greedy fucks.
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Before I retired last year, I was web developer for a community college. We had a graphic artist, but frequently I needed to just do a quick resize or change format for a web image. GIMP got the job done without the resource gluttony of PS.
Lets make it billions!
If pirating Photoshop counts as a lost sale then so does downloading GIMP.
If so, this man is one of the greatest software pirates ever.
Adobe pretty much encouraged piracy up until about a decade ago, that way they got schools to train (for free) potential future customers in their way to use design software.
TBH I don't understand why they have gone with the subs model they currently have, its kind of cutting the blood line from their future customers.
Competition is always a good thing, FOSS competition is the best thing in my opinion.
This guy is a hero, but not because he is trying to fuck Adobe but rather he is helping free design software from (massive) cost which most people cannot afford.
More designers, better art to my mind.
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Yeah nope, if the same product is available for free then the only way to prove a "stolen sale" is if someone had previously paid for the subscription and then cancelled to use the free version of the same product.
Anything else is just the hand of the free market doing it's thing. If Adobe executives are malding because someone made a cheaper (or free) alternative then they have two honourable routes available:
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Add more value to their products to convince people their price tag is worth it.
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Reduce the price they charge.
But they'll literally do anything else but those two, including astroturfing messages like "open source software is piracy", so stop spewing corpo bullshit!
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What a bastard. Consider the plight of the multinational corporation. They are ashen faced in the C-suite mumbling lamentations, 'number go down' and 'shareholder value'.
Ive used gimp since 2010. Its so good. I used to be a lot better at it back in university than I am now. But it still use it all the time.
Someone asked me yesterday what products besides Adobe's there were for his elderly cousin to merge PDFs, or extract pages. I proposed a few options, so I'm technically helping to lose money for Adobe. I'm doing my part 😁
Linux comes (at least on Mint and Ubuntu) with the poppler-utils suite of tools. you can merge, extract pages, even rip all the images out of a pdf in source quality. very useful.
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Annnd well they should lose millions!
NGL, I paid out the ass for PSCS3 waay back in 2007 - Universal binary.. PPC AND Intel installer - and FWIW, I'm still using it. In point of fact it's why all my Macs are dual boot with Mojave (32-bit support) so I can continue to install and use it. Homegirl is no how, no way gonna rent what I should be able to own.
(As Adobe no longer has the CS3 activation servers online, if you've still got an installed, activated, instance of the PSCS3 kicking around somewhere, copy the actual application itself out to a backup location.. so when you use the installer in a system capable of running it, you can swap the newly installed, inactivated copy out for the activated one you have in backup. Just do NOT try and launch the program before you do the swap.. This works for PC copies of CS3 as well as Mac..)
Personally, I can recommend a VM for that reason. Activate it once and then just copy the VM over to a new PC, Backup location, etc. Turn on internet access for it when activating, turn it off and leave it disabled for the rest of your life. Worked like a charm for me.
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The GIMP user would never have paid Adobe for Photoshop anyway.
If anything, it actually helped people get into photo editing and ended up using Photoshop at their work.
I'll be honest I've tried gimp and found that I'm terrible and not interested in making or editing any form of digital media. I've also tried Photoshop. Paint is more my speed fast and ugly.
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Yah, Adobe execs are crying about GIMP in their mattresses stuffed with thousand-dollar bills.
Bullshit, atomizing and pandering headlines aside, GIMP is a great program for light-duty graphics work and very easy to learn how to do impressive things with and a great intro to graphics programs and photo editing before investing in a more robust program.
Millions of dollars? That's not much.
Exactly.
Lost what money? People choosing not to buy your stuff isn't "lost income". Tell C-Suite to stop projecting everyone and their dog using their shit and take care of the users that they have.
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Here’s to another million 🥂
This is a cool fun fact, but it's not really an interesting picture. Should've been posted in Today I Learned or something instead of Pics.