Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)

Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by alasdair_ on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:41PM (#26334136)

Microsoft definitely had this strategy with early versions of Windows and quite a lot of specialist tools that cost thousands of dollars per license seem to have something similar going.

I can attest that when I was living on a few hundred dollars a month as a CS student, I pirated a very early version of the IntelliJ IDE. I don't feel bad about this, especially as I've been responsible for tens of thousands dollars worth of license sales for the same product over the years - if only a full-price version of IntelliJ was available, I'd have stuck with Netbeans/ Eclipse instead.

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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by XorNot on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:30PM (#26334863)

I mean Jetbrains free offerings are substantial anyway and I think just as effective these days. As soon as I found I needed remote debugging to just work, the money for an Ultimate license for myself was just sensible - I wanted to make sure I had the exact tools I needed at work everytime.

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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by boomboomsubban on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:25AM (#26339271)

>Microsoft definitely had this strategy with early versions of Windows

I question this, purely because the "Open Letter to Hobbyists" shows Microsoft as pretty hostile basically immediately.

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