*** Quoting Ilya Kuznetsoff from a message to Bo Simonsen ***

 BS> computers :-) Even companies use pirate software.

IK>   The one  reason,  you  need to use legal software -- the qualitative
IK> _personal_ technical support; this support is included in the software
IK> price and this is a big  number.  If  you don't have such support, you
IK> don't need to use legal software.

To me it's more a moral issue, but the way I view it isnt universal.  I
think ¨it's Australia, where the law is actually different.  Once you buy
the software ¨there, you can do as you please with it.  A subtle yet still
distinct ¨difference from the actual lisence agreement which says you can
use it for ¨yourself how you like, but the origional company still 'owns'
it and if you ¨want to sell it, you have to pay a license transfer fee to
make it legal.

It's not just Microsoft I make reference to.  There are others like
¨'Santronics' (BBS software) which does this.  What the people in that
contry ¨are doing is perfectly legal there, just that it isnt what the
software ¨developer intended.
                                       xxcarol

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