Rather shameful to the profession that you still have to use pirated software to do your work or even study.

If your in the IT line, if you dont want 2 pay for windows. Then why dont go open source since your more then cheap enough 2 use pirated software.

There are so many open source OS out there, any capable IT person would at least have tried out some of it b4 resorting to pirated goods.

Even big firms are going open source such as google and even notebook manufacturers like asus and dell which have ubuntu linux os in it instead of always offering the standard windows OS coz.

There are. Then they are those prefer pirated stuff coz they dont need to goto the pain of purchasing something which they need but just dont want 2 pay for it or have a cheaper or free alternative but still choose the pirated goods since they are stubborn enough to not wanting to learn how to use the free software and complain about why the free software isnt like the pirated software which they are so used to.

I used to do that but now i either go open source or i buy my CD's or just listen to music online through last.fm since i'm connected to the net constantly. There are ways to beat the pirated addcition, the only thing is whether you want 2 and if you are willing to for go the luxury of pirated goods.

Nearly everything i used is either freeware or open source from openoffice to 7zip to thunderbird and firefox. Photo editing i use gimp which is also open source.

If you want non pirated platform, go for fedora, ubuntu or red hat OS since most of the apps for those OS are either freeware/open source. The future of computing is open source as google as demo quite extensively with their apps.

As for watching US tv shows, i just goto the their own website which provide free viewing like NBC's heroes.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Oct 18 2008, 08:39 PM

How much is cekik darah?

For some, even RM100 is oledi cekik darah and they so used to pirated stuff, when they see the price of adobe dreamweaver or microsoft office, they just resign themselves to using pirated software since its beyond their means but they dont mind being a thief since they need it rather then want it.

And this wont change until they change.