agree with kalankisthan, Some of the softwares are priced way too high... look at windows Office , i agree its great piece of software but 300+$ from each one of us.. thats too highly priced. if there wasn't software piracy how many of nepalese(+ other asians) would have been able to use Windows, Office,Photoshop,Visual studio,Oracle... and all of these software giants know about piracy and kinda somehow encourage piracy (atleast in asia) to make sure people atleast use their software. M$ would like to have people using pirated WinXP rather than switching to Fedora.