>It's a shame... there are many of us who would not be where we are today, as productive, value-creating citizens, without having learned our trade with pirated

>It's a shame... there are many of us who would not be where we are today, as productive, value-creating citizens, without having learned our trade with pirated software. I imagine Adobe has managed to keep a lot of mindshare for Photoshop simply by how widely it is pirated. If pirating Photoshop was absolutely impossible, there'd probably be a lot more Gimp users in this world.