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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But Adobe gives (gave) away the reader for free, to encourage PDF's use. It think that was called advertizing....
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I wasn't talking about the Acrobat reader; you're right, they intentionally gave the reader away to saturate the market (and beat out a rival product by WordPerfect that came out at the same time... not a lot of people know that).
I was referring to Photoshop, Illustrator and PageMaker, which Adobe sold... but which were easy to circumvent security and share around. That's exactly what people did, and the market became saturated with pirated products. When Adobe locked down the products, everyone was so used to the products that they (grudgingly) paid rather than go without or use competing software like CorelDraw and PhotoPaint.
Anyway, we're straying a bit from the subject of Swipe-zerland allowing its citizens to steal from foreign artists.