Comment by wolpoli
11 hours ago
While many hobbyists developer market, like the hobbyist graphic design market, pirated their tools, the corporate market did paid for their tools.
The issue here is that they the developers aren't convincing their companies to pay for libraries now, partly because a lot of the tools are now free.
The pain process and paperwork to obtain a license for anything in a corporate environment is usually the biggest factor imho.