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xerxes3642

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OK so here is the

scenerio then,

I get a of a pirated copy of publisher. I use this copy and become proficient. I'm hired by a company looking to use a layout program. Since I already know it, I suggest publisher over pages or indesign, and the company (who has more money than me) buys several legal copies. Pirates make the working world go round?
Derfel

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Re: OK so here is the

Exactly why my employers signed on for licenses for Adobe InDesign - we had Publisher, and after I had used a pirated copy of InDesign for a year to try it out, we switched on my advice. Just goes to show...

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Re: OK so here is the

Examples like this happen all the time. As a teenager, and with limited funds, it's common to pirate a lot of stuff. OS/Utils/Apps you name it.... However later on as a "Computer Guy" or "Tech" it's common to help out businesses who then buy a bunch of licenses of various utilities and applications that same "Computer Guy" recommends.
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JamesPC

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Re: OK so here is the

Exactly....thats my story.

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said by KrK See Profile :

Examples like this happen all the time. As a teenager, and with limited funds, it's common to pirate a lot of stuff. OS/Utils/Apps you name it.... However later on as a "Computer Guy" or "Tech" it's common to help out businesses who then buy a bunch of licenses of various utilities and applications that same "Computer Guy" recommends.
The amount of studios that switch from protools because of assistant engineers/interns that became proficient in Nuendo on their home systems never ceases to amaze me. Something tells me young unpaid interns that are computer literate grab H2O's copy off of usenet opposed to paying 2.7K for the software + plugins though.

Linux is free. Tons of linux software is free. Yet people still take the effort to grab, and distribute warezed copies of windows. If I'm a microsoft executive, isn't this a good thing? It means my competition is a joke. If people are downloading my software by the gallon and not paying for it, when there are free alternatives that millions of people are working on, and I _STILL_ make a sick profit.. I must be doing something right.
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Re: OK so here is the

Exactly. There's a quote floating around of something to that effect, attributed to a software developer who wished to remain anonymous. It went something like this:

It's when people don't pirate your software that you should be worried.
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I wouldn't waste the bandwidth pirating microsofts current offering(Vista), either downloading or uploading.
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said by xerxes3642 See Profile :

scenerio then,

I get a of a pirated copy of publisher. I use this copy and become proficient. I'm hired by a company looking to use a layout program. Since I already know it, I suggest publisher over pages or indesign, and the company (who has more money than me) buys several legal copies. Pirates make the working world go round?


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