I pay for it.
The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.
I don’t expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.
Possible, not practical.
I use substance painter and I need it to work. I don’t want to spend hours messing around trying to make it work and jumping through hoops.
Wine for DCC is great if you enjoy tinkering with pipelines rather than using them, but impractical for people who are trying to reliably get work done.
You can in fact insure things that it is possible to steal. Cars, bikes, household posessions, you name it. It’s quite common.
Effort!
I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.
This is why I use Linux, the fingerprint device wouldn’t be supported so this wouldn’t be an issue /s
Yikes, how Draconian. Id be fucking pissed if someone came in and forcibly open sourced a product I had invested millions in developing.