Comments on: Should I Install Pirate Software on Clients Computers?

By: Piano instrumentals

Piano instrumentals — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:54:41 +0000

If you are in the middle east this is probably acceptable but not here in Europe.

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:52:00 +0000

I try to use free and open source software, but sometimes i find myself forced to install and use pirated software, i can’t afford to buy 99$ os or piece of software, and there is even no legitimate software store where i live ,

By: Melcom B Smit

Melcom B Smit — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:04:58 +0000

I strongly agree with the authur of the page! ***NEVER*** install pirated software! Not only is it illigal, it may even cost you a fine (In South Africa) of a maximum of $125 000 or R1000000 or a jail sentence of no more the 15 years, so take it from me and do not do that!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:39:32 +0000

The article should have just had the word “NO” on the page..next please.

By: done done DONE

done done DONE — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:23:07 +0000

These letters say that they may send representatives to the business to check their Adobe software licenses and provide rewards to businesses that report other businesses using pirate software.

Ok, getting people to squeal on transgressors I understand, but who in their right mind would allow someone claiming to be working for a random company to enter their home or place of business for any reason?

I’m guessing Adobe doesn’t do this in castle doctrine states.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:36:16 +0000

(as my younger sister would say)
WHATEVER?!
What an inane blathering idiot. No OS. No AV. means no money. Stick with the Big Dogs and stop squabbling about b.s. Walk on this side of the line please, and clean your ass. don’t hurt anybody today. …And for God’s sake grow the f- up!

By: jay

jay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:01:48 +0000

When a pirate copy is being used the client should be informed about it.I bought a pc in a shop where they build it together all went well untill I thought to update it at the microsoft site( like I do with my laptop with out problems)when they asked to check it with the advantage tool I agreed(like i did with my laptop) but then I got a message telling me I wasn’t running a genuin version and it stamped me with this mark and everytime I turned my pc on it would tell me I needed to get a valid copy of course I went back to the shop and told them to fix it and they did. That though was the day I decided to get myself educated in computers and I learn how to do things more and more and hope one day I will be able to do this for a living and deffinately NO PIRATE SOFTWARE on clients machines even if they ask 4 it.
Thank you for listening
ciao
Jay

By: axl456

axl456 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:05:32 +0000

I agree with mac when he saids “When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do.”

Here in venezuela, anybody has a legal copy of windows, and thats not because lack of money, it is because the average user just does not know that he or she has to buy a legal copy of the OS.

Saying to the client “I can’t do the job until you buy a legal copy of the OS” will totally drop down to zero the amount of clients you’ll get..

By: Jonah J

Jonah J — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:31:12 +0000

Microsoft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hades and causes more people on this planet more grief on any given day, than all of Satan’s other minions combined.

By: Knut Arne Vedaa

Knut Arne Vedaa — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:50:46 +0000

I generally agree but for me there’s one exception at least. I occasionally come across someone who’s got an old computer with (a legal version of) Windows 98 on it. They want to install some network dongle or whatever, which drivers need Windows 98 _second edition_.

Since that’s not sold anymore, and the computer won’t be able to run XP, they’re out of luck. I have a cracked copy of Win98SE lying around, and I tell them that I could install that, but that it’s an “illegal” copy. They’ve always been happy with that, and I don’t find it a big deal since they had a legal copy in the first place.