"Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" > Yep, just dont like to see people openly encouranging piracy....no > offence > of course :-) > I do not see anything wrong with d/l any software off #favorite.p2p# to learn with.
Not that I am defending piracy... But I believe Microsoft(companies in general) brings this on themseleves. They are creating the black market for illegal copies of SQL Server. They are criminalizing the very people they want to use and learn their product: developers. I do not want a crippled copy of anything to learn on. I like the model that Oracle has, if I am a member of their devolper network I can donwload, install, test and develop on any of their products as a developer. Because of this I have learned more about Oracle(than I really wanted to) and when consulting I recomend this over SQL server everytime. As long as I can't convince them to use postgresql first ;) As a developer/consultant I think companies should make it easier for me to test and develop on their software. I think propriatary software will have a hard time competeing in the future as open source matures. Developers-To-Be can download any open source project and begin to learn without having to worry about licencing. Their efforts will be concentrated on developing. The harder companies make it for developers to learn their software, the less devopers they will have for their product over the long run. didn't mean to rant, sorry jason __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
