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Originally Posted by tompe
Personally I think that illegally downloading photoshop is bad because it hurts open source alternatives like Gimp. That holds for a lot of other things like Office and Windows operating systems. With less piracy the market for these programs will be smaller and we will faster get better open source alternatives.
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You can say that about any popular piece of software available on the open market. Photoshop doesn't just hurt the market for open source programs, it also hurts the market for other paid programs, like Corel, and slows up the progress of all alternatives.
Well, since this discussion has all but run screaming from the original subject of traffic management, and into yet another piracy debate, where can we go from here? I'm thinking of a discussion of another alternative, for which I'd probably create another thread. Is there anything else we haven't covered here?