Re: Moral/legal question

We had 21 computers running Win 98 and Autocad 2002. Crashes were common.
Minimum of four per day usually more. I kept mine going by rebooting three
times a day. Upgraded one PC to Win 2000. Solid as a rock. Upgraded the rest
to XP. Not as good as 2000 but much better than 98. Some have said that they
got it to run fine on 98 but many people have had the same experience as we
did.


"SAIC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Kim2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I use ACAD 2004 at work.
> >
> > I would like to now purchase a copy for home for off-hours consultancy
> > work. My system is a W98 system that works fine and for reasons not
> > relevant enough to go into here, I do not want to upgrade it to WinXP
> > at present.
>
> For the record, it's not necessary to upgrade to WinXP in order to use
ACAD
> 2004.
> ACAD 2004 on Windows 98 works fine.
>
> >
> > Can I purchase a copy of ACAD 2004 and install instead a pirated copy
> > of Acad 2002? I have tried obtaining a copy of 2002 but all the
> > AutoDesk distributors in my country say it is not available. My copy
> > of 2004 would then just sit on the shelf and would not be used on ANY
> > computer. What is the legal or moral position of what I am proposing?
> >
> > All viewpoints welcomed.
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