More ethics... (long, of course)

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

Eric asked:
>As a starting point (and a means to gracefully segue back to
>tech writing), I'd love to know why more than 10% of the
>people who responded to this week's poll use pirated or
>unlicensed software to do their tech writing jobs.

Because my company won't pay up. I have never yet worked for a company that
paid WinZip their licence fee, yet every company I have worked for uses
zipfiles for internal releases, if not external releases. That's the most
egregious example, but I can think of multiple other sharewares which were
used by a company I worked for, where I sent a reminder about buying a
licence, which was ignored by the finance department...

Jane Carnall
Technical Writer, Digital Bridges, Scotland
Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine alone.


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