Thread: Is it okay for a student with limited financial resources to pirate software?
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2010-09-18 , 05:39
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
I understand many of your comments on piracy. But i assume most of you are guys who have a job. Are you sure you would have tought similarly when you were in college without a job?
When I was in college my aunt sponsored my own machine. She left the software up to me - which meant a copy of pirated Windows XP.
After I got my first job, after I paid off all my student debts and paid off my aunt for the machine she sponsored, I went and bought a copy of Windows to match the one I had pirated for that machine.

For every pirated Windows virtual machine that I installed in college, I have bought a genuine Windows copy.
I paid for multiple VmWare Workstation installation to compensate for the times I installed it from a pirated copy.

I do this because I believe in the fact that I get what I give. I write open source software because thats another way I hope to pay back for all the free stuff I used.

Its Karma and you don't want her to take from you forcefully what you can pay of your own free will.
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