Again the answer is you do not have to use the software.

Plenty of people have donated their software to the floss movement.

If the software you want is not available in that movement then the argument that it has no vaule is bunk.

It clearly has enougth value that the author is not willing to give it away.

If your religion wants to proove otherwise. Then feel free to write your own version and put the people selling it out of business.

There are plenty of developers that will help if your software idea is useful to them.

Heck if its of use to me and I have valid input Ill even help.

You have no excuse to pirate. And any argument you make about its value being marginal is invalidated by the fact that you have been unable to work with others to produce a competitor at marginal cost.

If the only thing stopping you using it is piracy protection. Then stop using it. this is exactlty what we need to give these companies the smack they need for making life harder for customers. No customers. Not an in with the lawmakers stating it must be of value or why are people stealing it.

You are creating your own problem by using the software.