There is a difference between the academic and normal retail version of software, but it's not in the code, oh no. The licences for the two products are different. If I recall correctly (most likely not) the licence for the academic version prohibits using it to make money i.e. you can not release any game you produce with it for cash. I don't know how Microsoft can tell, or even if they bother checking though (can't see that they would as it would be quite anal, but...).

If we are talking pirated software I may as well throw in my tuppence worth:

I have no moral objection to people using pirated software to see what it is like, but if they like it and decide to keep it then you've got to cough up. Like a self regulated form of Shareware. Of course it depends on everybody else thinking the same way (which they don't)

[This message has been edited by STG (edited November 25, 1999).]

Run something like Basta's Buzzoff (I think it is called)? It will automatically push the button of the stupid dlg box. (Windows PowerPro can do this and much more for that matter... come to that, there are bound to be others (: )

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EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO OWN EVERYTHING PIECE OF SOFTWARE THEY WANT IF THEY TAKE THE TIME TO PIRATE IT, THEY WILL NOT LOSE MONEY BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO PIRATE THE SOFTWARE WERE NEVER GOING TO BUY IT, AND NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO GO OUT OF THERE WAY TO LEARNE HOW TO IF THEY COULD JUST SPEND A COUPLE OF BUCKS, SO JUS LEAVE IT AT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Anyway, to elegantly refute this argument (and without, I might add, all capitals), everyone must understand that software is not merely information, it is work. Work that many people put hours of their life into. To deprive them of their due profit (which they really deserve, since quality software is almost a rarity) is not the way things should be. The rationalization that pirating software is not bad because the pirator would never have bought the software in the first place is the most used rationalization in existance. Although this may be true (Photoshop, for example) in some cases in some circumstances in totally educational and completely non-profit purposes, the truth is that the person would have bought the software HAD HE NOT BEEN OF THE MINDSET THAT SOFTWARE CAN AND SHOULD BE FREE.

Anyway, software piracy is a big issue, and this anonymous coward's all capital, poorly worded scream is not helping.

Also, if that IP is not from a modem pool or other shared range, just ban it please. Not to censor, but morons like that need to learn that the anonymity of the Internet is not an excuse.

- Splat

Good luck,
Nomad

I wrote in all CAPS caus i wanted to get the point accross, and help all those old programers that are past there prime sumtin ta look at, K

When I run a program I've written, it pops up with a dialog box that says I cannot redistribute any executables that I created with this product. I have to click OK before my program will run. Is there any way to remove this box, I can't find it in the header files, program file, or resource files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

Also, we do not condone piracy, and will not be allowing people to discuss methods for pirating or getting around the limitations on free/shareware software here.

Finally, no one makes up the rules for OTHER people in a free society, beyond saying that you cant infringe upon each others rights and defining what those are. Which means that if people decide to charge for software, thats their right. If you dont like it, dont use their software.

This thread is closed as its going nowhere and shouldnt have really been gone into in the first place.

-Geoff