Do you think it's wrong when I use a cracked version of a not free software because I genuinely cannot afford to pay, I am not using it to make money either

I have used all manor of cracked software in the past when I was a broke ass student. I've purchased a fair bit of what I used in the past, some of it I nolonger have a use for but still buy. Some things are crazy overpriced for the only thing that can do a reasonable job (photoshop, gimp doesn't even come close). I'd only buy it if I needed it for work, then I'd write off as business expense.

Personally if you actually can't afford it and would/will pay when you can, I don't have any qualms.

I kinda agree with that. I mean, from a certain point of view, I understand it's too expensive to buy licenses sometimes (like when you just started working) but at the se time I also think that one can see it as an investment, exactly like any other professions when you work on your own. If I want to start my dream job as a dentist, it's not like I'm gonna steal all the equipment ☺

I did once a long time ago, and I can certainly understand why someone would.

But these days I try to follow the rule of "don't shit where you eat" and all my licenses are fully legal.

For most things there are OSS/Free alternatives, almost everything else is available fairly cheaply at least for devs. For those things that aren't: It's simply not worth being caught up in a license lawsuit if you use it to make something awesome.

@ste09 ...aaand then that "investment" becomes a yearly subscription... looking at you creative cloud

I have completely moved on to linux and I don't need any crack... also I can get many licensed software using my student id..

@xp-bar true! That's the current selling model based on subscriptions.

@xp-bar fucking everything its switching to a subscription, i can't stand it m8. Adobe, MS office, Whats so bad about the good old "you pay once and its yours"? Is it because DRM?

Could be worse. You might pay for an OS and it decides to show you ads anyway.

@alwaysmpe *cough* Windows 10 *cough*

@iguana Windows 10 shows ADS?! Damn I'm never ever installing it.

@Elendil for sure! Such a pain the arse -_-

@ste09 yeah. I mean, you can still crack, but honestly

@iguana Ads? I see no ads on my gaming computer! Been running Win10 on it for ages.

@brahn @bcst1992 yep. Ads. http://pcworld.com/article/3039827/... they've started putting banner ads for office 365 in explorer now too: http://pcworld.com/article/3178683/...