>First, at least for North America, I think the numbers of pirated stuff are extremely small. I'm not including the "collectors" here (those who copy anything they can but never actually use it), but companies and people who actually use the pirated stuff.

I don't believe that. I think the number of people that but one license for an MS product and used it a gazillion times is alot larger than what you think it is.

>The former Chairman of Corel is the only executive to actually state so publicly, reasoning that he got two benefits:

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong symbol, but if Corel's spent more time getting payment for their software than letting people use it for free, they wouldn't be trading stock at $3.50.