Good point here. In case of Adobe and Microsoft piracy actually creates income.
If we didn't have pirated MS Office and Adobe Creative Suite folks would improve openoffice.org and the GIMP/Scribus/Inkscape instead and these monopolies would die and lose everything.
Piracy actually helps software monopolies to be de facto standards and kills all alternatives (or keeps alternatives unusable).
Thus software piracy "steals" only our own freedom.
If we didn't have pirated MS Office and Adobe Creative Suite folks would improve openoffice.org and the GIMP/Scribus/Inkscape instead and these monopolies would die and lose everything.
Piracy actually helps software monopolies to be de facto standards and kills all alternatives (or keeps alternatives unusable).
Thus software piracy "steals" only our own freedom.