furtivefelon
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why does everyone make a such a big deal out of pirated version? you think MS with their tens of billions of dollars reserve cash can't track down on all the piraters?! of course they can.. why don't they? because they are doing what all other software company is doing about piraters, let them go on.. as they know alot of piraters just can't afford the software they are using (you think a high school student can afford to install photoshop/premier/acrobat 6.0?!)..
they let them go on because it's actually good for their software.. more people will bother to learn the software if they actually have something to learn it with.. yah alot of them have 30 days trial, but alot of people are busy and need more than 30 days to learn it, and they want to use it..
when more people learn the software, they will promote it, and may be other people will buy it.. media is blowing pirating out of proportion, only music company is squaking all over the place, but software company knows better than to stiffle such a good way to promote their over priced software.. they are making it just on the border of legality so to prevent those who are deciding whether to buy or download to download..
when are they going to crack down? when you manage a 1000+ installation of the software.. they won't sue you, they will come and negotiate a deal with you.. i remember recently on slashdot there was a story where a government (small country) uses pirated version of windows on all their computers, and MS came to them and said, pay me $1 for everyone installation, and i'll give u the real version.. they could sue and win, but why should they when you have a whole country's support for your software?!
and that's why i switched to freeBSD...
they let them go on because it's actually good for their software.. more people will bother to learn the software if they actually have something to learn it with.. yah alot of them have 30 days trial, but alot of people are busy and need more than 30 days to learn it, and they want to use it..
when more people learn the software, they will promote it, and may be other people will buy it.. media is blowing pirating out of proportion, only music company is squaking all over the place, but software company knows better than to stiffle such a good way to promote their over priced software.. they are making it just on the border of legality so to prevent those who are deciding whether to buy or download to download..
when are they going to crack down? when you manage a 1000+ installation of the software.. they won't sue you, they will come and negotiate a deal with you.. i remember recently on slashdot there was a story where a government (small country) uses pirated version of windows on all their computers, and MS came to them and said, pay me $1 for everyone installation, and i'll give u the real version.. they could sue and win, but why should they when you have a whole country's support for your software?!
and that's why i switched to freeBSD...