Certainly agree about the professional licenses, it's part of my job to ensure that we have sufficient licenses here (besides the morality, we get surprise audits occasionally :)

>-Though also rejectable but far more common is that people at home have one or more products installed without licenses for use at home. You can think about games for the kid in the house or an old version of Word for mom or daddy.

I draw the line somewhere like this: If a household has 2 PCs, say Mom & Dad have one, kids have one. The family has only one license, but installs product on each machine. Not really legal, but I think acceptable morally. However, if they pass the same CD to a neighbor to install, that's crossing the line and is not acceptable...

>- When we come to the gray area of legal. I find it much harder to reject the use. Last year I called MS if I can use a Dutch localized version of MS - office while I own a English version of MS office (my girlfrend isn't too confortable within the english version). They said I couldn't do this because i've had to buy the dutch version. Here I really get the impression MS is sqeeuzing all money out of us, and don't find it rejectable to install the Dutch version.

What do you expect them to say, Walter? :) An MS employee could start big trouble by saying anything else. But many would agree that what you want to do is reasonable, legal or not...