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Originally Posted by chardog
I develop software, and I highly recommend you steal it.
As far as movies go, steal as much as you can.
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I don't know if it's like this where you are but, up here, the arrangement is that (generally) software / OS companies turn a blind eye to end-users (because they're not profitable anyway and it's impossible to enforce) but private businesses, organizations, public and government institutions are under INTENSE scrutiny to have 100% legitimate software / OSs. The cost is huge but all of these institutions comply because the fines / sanctions / penalties are even more huge.
Not to mention that, if everyone at home uses Word, everyone pressure their office to use Word (or else people can't accomplish any office-compatible work from home) and therefore businesses / institutions are further incented to buy legitimate licenses for Word while MS doesn't really give a dayum what goes on in people's homes. (Sure, they don't make it easy, but they certainly don't enforce like in the case of institutions and businesses.)
