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Originally Posted by tbhausen
Open Office wasn't available all the years your brother needed, and thus stole, Office. And if you were a developer seeing your work stolen rather than purchased, you wouldn't believe pirates have "very little impact on the market"... Weak rationalization all around.
Todd/Indy
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Actually, openoffice, or it's predecessor staroffice WERE available for most of the time he was pirating microsoft office. Additionally, there have always been other alternatives..
As for your comments about "if I was a developer"... EVERYONE, in every industry has had their work stolen, copied, or used without permission. I've had far worse happen to me than someone who wouldn't pay for my software anyway downloading a stolen version. That's just part of life.
Again, Piracy is a simple part of a developer's life, just like theft is part of a storeowner's life. There's no use complaining about it, because there's no way to stop it. The people who are "victimizing" you most likely would never buy your product in the first place.
I do like the fact that you never remotely addressed the meat of my post.. That being that pirates are a minority of the computing public, and only a very small minority of pirates are people who do it because they're too cheap to buy a program that they actually NEED.. the only people who are hurting the developers are a minority of the minority of computer owners.