skullaria wrote:
I bet at least 1/3 of the computing population has copied something illegally at one time or another. The rest of the them probably can't produce serial numbers for everything they have installed.

Agreed, probably more than 1/2 on home computers (since businesses get audited). 1/2 the comps in this house have pirated stuff. My dad's laptop (because it's all open source software) and my dad's laptop (because his office won't allow it) are the 1/2 that lack pirated stuff.

My cousin (owns a little company) said she "had to buy MS Office because we get audited," which well...she didn't get it when I said "audited only matters on free stuff for *illegal* *pirated* free stuff. If it's legally freely given away, auditing doesn't mean crap and you can use NeoOffice just fine!" I think when I suggested Linux+OOo+Gimp on cheap hardware (to save over Mac+MS Office+Photoshop...she didn't want Windows cuz of viruses) she thought I was suggesting pirating.

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