Everyone that make software agree that publishing their software in a P2P site is a bad thing. It’s practically stealing their hours of building it. And I’m not just talking about the legit software company. Heck, look at this screenshot:

Yeah, that is RELOADED, complaining about P2P users publishing their crack.

Granted, they seems like the lone, hated group from the scene, but still, They worked for their release, and pissed of when someone put them on P2P.

I’m kinda shocked about this. For all these years of seeing (and using) cracks and fixes made by them, I thought they are the one who put it on P2P. I guess I was wrong, then.

Which brings us to today’s topic: What can you do if you can’t pay for your softwares?

Well, you can always use free software (both as in beer and as in speech). There should be almost anything you need in the free world. Need a good OS? Linux, or BSD should do fine. Word Processors? Openoffice, KOffice, Gnome Office, LaTeX will do all of them. Multimedia? A lot of choice you can choose from.

Most of the software I mentioned above can be had for nothing. You can use it as you like, get a free community support, free updates, and you can freely redistribute it, Like selling your own PC brand with free software loaded into them.

But is that it? You use the software, made money with it, and walk away?

Let’s not do that, shall we?

There are a LOT of ways for you to return what free software gave you. For example, you can hang out at the community forum, providing support for others, you can help translate the software, you can help track their bugs, and, of course, you can help them build it.

To give and to receive is a beautiful thing.