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Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: syhprum on 03/04/2009 21:33:10

Title: mathmatica
Post by: syhprum on 03/04/2009 21:33:10

Has anyone succeeded in loading this from file sharing sources ?, to get it loaded is no great problem but I can find no way to get it activated.

Title: mathmatica
Post by: LeeE on 04/04/2009 20:01:18

Are you talking about the Wolfram Mathematica program?  If you've got a legitimate copy of this then you should try their technical support, but I don't think anyone's going to help you try to get a cracked copy running.

Title: mathmatica
Post by: syhprum on 06/04/2009 14:13:41

Whether one uses file sharing (pirated) copies of software is of course moral and legal problem, of course if you are a commercial user it is a serious offence to use software that you have not purchased but I do not see that the amateur user who wants say a copy of PhotoShop to experiment retouching one or two pictures is committing any great offence.
Microsoft have encouraged the downloading of Windows 7 to publicity and feedback.   

Title: mathmatica
Post by: LeeE on 06/04/2009 19:03:06

It's not for you to decide the terms by which other people make their property available to you.

So what that Microsoft have encouraged the downloading of the Windows 7 beta, both in order to de-bug it and to try to lure back customers after Vista?  Are you really saying that when Microsoft, being a convicted monopolist, decides to do something, everyone else should be obliged to do the same?