Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro

Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by zokier on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:14AM (#17653806)

PSP is imho the prime example of how piratism hurts software industry. The problem was not so much that PSP was pirated, but that Photoshop was pirated. Most people did not need Photoshop, and would have been happy PSP users. But if Photoshop was "free" then it is natural that people gravitated towards the "industry-standard" "professional" tool.

Piratism hurts small low-cost hobbyist software most by dislocating them with free professional juggernaut tools.

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by Patrick_Devine on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:39PM (#17655817)

What's your take on big companies contributing and/or running open source/free software? Doesn't that also dislocate small low-cost hobbyist software?

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by zokier on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:09PM (#17656093)

Well I'm not a fan of "open core" products, for not all too dissimilar reasons. But I'll admit the situation with open source and commercial actors is fair bit more complicated, with no easy answers (unless you are Stallman)

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:48PM (#17655898)

> piratism

"Piracy" is the usual word.

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by Chronos309 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:08PM (#17664472)

I like piratism more...but you're right....

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by RodericDay on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @12:12PM (#17654433)

now apply this to Google and Facebook's "free" offerings

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Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro by zokier on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:10PM (#17656104)

Big difference is that those generally do not delineate naturally into "expensive/professional" and "low-cost/hobbyist" markets.

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