Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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2010-03-03 , 12:26
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Originally Posted by Fargus View Post
If you don't have the time to purchase it then you should find another way of achieving the same end. The whole point of software is to provide a service that saves you time and effort.
Agreed.

The following is not a reliable defence:
"I can't afford it but I need it so I steal it"

Besides - which students need Adobe products but don't have them provided free by their university/college? When I was at Uni we got all of the MS software free from MS, and a whole host of other stuff on restricted licences.
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Nokia are a business and have chosen a path of using the OSS community phenomenon to reduce their overheads specifically after sales support and development. Unlike Apple who do the opposite and make a killing from their Applications store.