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

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.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:54:02 +0000

Never install pirated software. I hear from new customers that so and so just GAVE them MS Office free of charge and they are so happy. They want to know why I don’t do that too….that I would have so many customers. I simply tell them they can borrow a disc and do it if they want but I have a business to think about and it’s unethical to do things like that.

By: TheQ

TheQ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:32:41 +0000

Also I try To experiment with certain categories of software mainly Operating Systems before Purchasing a legimate Copy.

That way when you get to a clients house you know the in and outs of a particular software.
but thats and exception to the rule.

But once I have mastered a piece of software, I will go out and purchase a Real copy from The Big two Bestbuy or Staples, plus that supports the economy

I must admit, my first semester of Community-College, for one of my IT classes, I had to use a pirated version of Office 2007 and if i hadn’t, I would have failed the class. One-hundred and Sixty-Nine dollars is alot for someone who is unemployed. But I plan on buying two copies of the software once i get on my feet

But Damn! let me stop telling on myself, I could be Incriminating my self as of this moment, and you Techies are like, try telling that to a judge

By: TheQ

TheQ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:00:47 +0000

Software pirating is wrong, but some consumers who make under 18,000 dollars a year. Are hard strapped for cash, Can you really blame them.

Software is really not that expensive I think Windows XP and Vista can be purchased from $99 to $199. Most of your other Media type Software from Dvd burning To Digital Imaging ranges from $99 To $299.

But thats alot of cash for someone living at the poverty line making only 7.75 hour. Thats like $500.00 every Two weeks which means that their is very little money for software,when bills come into the picture. American Citzens like I, have to result too alternative means, like Shareaza and Pirate Bay and other Similiar Bit Torrents.