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> yet I have no doubt an enormous amount of their poweruser userbase simply have never paid for them.

Do keep in mind that many of these companies expect users to pirate their software. Indeed, piracy is ironically part of what has made Adobe such a big player - teenagers pirating software in highschool, and using it up until their first job, make it their go-to tool when they actually do enter a company. Often leaving the company with no choice but Photoshop!




Hex-Rays is not one of those companies, I don't think.


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