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by lepunk 4773 days ago
helping out a (family member) university student to get one more day access to the $3000+ software (which he won't ever use again) after the trial expired in order to pass his final exam.
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Seems to me like there are plenty of free programs for writing papers that could have been used in the first place.
not really. his paper was actually a piece of software written for a specific PLC. he actually had to buy the plc hardware and he used this german software's trial version to get the code on the PLC. the problem was when he tried to retrieve the finished code and the trial expired.

the program itself is incredibly outdated and as my uncle says noone using it in the industry anymore. sadly this one was the only one with trial version

That's piracy.