Kassem wroteOh please! could you stop making us feel guilty about buying "pirated" software?! If MS, Apple, Adobe, AutoDesk...etc weren't so damn greedy they wouldn't charge all that money for a freaking software! Ok it's high quality software but we still have rights to use it! How in the hell am I supposed to pay all that money for software if the average wage in Lebanon is definitely not more than 600$ - 800$ at best?
Copyrights and all these crapy laws cannot be applied to Lebanon. Once we get a decent government that learns how to invest and increase our net income then we'll start buying stuff "legally".
Microsoft is indeed greedy.
But Adobe and Autodesk are definitely not greedy. Their software is targeted towards professionals, companies and firms that make more that what they spend on software. Autocad and photoshop are not meant to be used by the home user. That is why things are expensive. You are not supposed to be using that software at home.
Students should use autocad and photoshop at the university. If a university can't provide enough computers for the students to work on their projects in the computer labs, then that's really sad news. I wouldn't want my kids in that university. Any university that expects a student to have autocad or photoshop at home should really be closed whether it is AUB, LAU or lebanese university. In no way should an educational institution be supporting piracy.
