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:
Add more value to their products to convince people their price tag is worth it.
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!
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:
Add more value to their products to convince people their price tag is worth it.
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!
Holy shit… did Adobe actually say FOSS is piracy?!? I couldn’t find anything, got a source?
Or 3, the common alternative for monopolists, Buy the competing startup, cannibalize a few of it’s best features and end of life it.