You have taken my statement out of context. Of course they can lose money by developing software that people don't pay for. The point was that they can't lose the money that was never going to be paid anyway. But like I said, that doesn't make copying ok, just that it's not stealing. As to the example of Chinese clones, the original manufacturer does indeed lose money, since every clone sold is a unit that could have been sold by the OM (maybe not for the full price, but sold never the less).
