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Yes FOSS is good and should be supported, but claming someone who is pirating a copy of Adobe is perpetuating abuse is batshit. Supporting an open source project requires specific knowledge and/or money, pirating Adobe and using a wholly separate skillset to pay your bills is morally neutral at worst. Personally I would argue, it's good actually.
"I can't support this FOSS project because I'm broke and don't know how the fuck to code, and I also I can't use this stolen copy of Adobe because someone might find out, guess I'll starve" doesn't make any sense.
Maybe I shouldn't have chosen those words, but what I was getting at was that people who use cracked copies of nonfree software still contribute to that software's growth. I didn't mean for that to attack anyone in particular. Piracy is a corporate, anti user term and we should stop using it. Adobe banks on both paying and non-paying customers and you aren't hurting them at all by using cracked/unlawful copies. It's still a network effect, the more people who use Adobe will lead to more and more people using it.
Or just using and learning about it. You don't need to be a programmer to contribute to projects but saying this makes it seem that way. Using free software over proprietary software is praxis just by itself. I'm not naive enough to say that's always possible, but it's the only way to prevent further harm.
This is an overexaggeration of what I said. Generally speaking, we can contribute/partipate in systems of abuse out of necessity or without meaning to. Also no one is saying you should starve stop being dramatic we aren't fucking redditors.
I''m not condemning those who are forced to use Adobe for their livlihood (or at least I didn't wish to). I was pushing back on the shallow narrative that "piracy" is the end all be all and not thinking about how they still can contribute to the issue.
I didn't mean this as a personal attack on anyone (unless maybe to people who call themselves software pirates, which is cringe imo) and I'm sorry if it came out that way.