>In my country people and firms prefer to to use illegal sowtware - the don't want to pay for brains, becuse they can't see (touch) results of programmers's work.-))
The situation is similar here in Bolivia. A company is quite capable of upgrading hardware for several 1000 US$. But if a programmer offers a software solution for a few thousand dollars (or even for a few hundred dollars), they will invariably ask "what, THAT expensive"? Probably because they are accustomed to get software for "free" - and don't appreciate the work required for customized solutions.
The situation is changing gradually, due to campaigns by BSA. Companies are starting to get scared.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)