Why dont we give microsoft amnesty for using pirated softwarez! Check this out
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/13/0036243.shtml?tid=133
Gates made a statement at a computer conference years ago that went something like this: 'Good ideas are to be borrowed; great ideas are to be stolen.'
Gates didn't magically think up Windows all by himself. He thought the early Mac had a 'great' idea.
During the early years of Windows (before most of the world even knew what is was), a software company (Digital Research, IIRC) developed developed a graphic interface called GEM. It was a fair desktop application software. But, like so many, it didn't gain much of a following and went out of business.