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They did not "lose" any money; they never had it
What they lost is potential customers
Right?
If I had no intention on buying your product, you didn't lose money.
If I pirate your product, you still didn't lose any money as I still had no intention on buying your product.
There are probably some people who decided to use GIMP instead of Photoshop, some people who simply pirated Photoshop, and some people who bought Photoshop anyway.
It's difficult to quantify the degree to which the existence of GIMP caused lost sales for Adobe. I started using GIMP instead of a high-seas Photoshop version, so I still haven't spent a dime!
The "losing money" argument is the same they use against media piracy.
Oil piracy though, no biggie so long as it's a big government doing it.