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 "content_md": "# growing up\n\n\n<p>i'm feeling quite grown up, i've just go myself my second piece of legal commercial software (third if you include windows)</p>\n<p>so now i have legit copies of <a href=\"http://www.gcuser.com\">Generative Components</a> and of <a href=\"http://ecotect.com/home\">Ecotect</a>, one day i might have lots of legal commercial software, but i might go open source for a few things like office.</p>\n<p>it's quite a funny feeling after all these years of only having cracked software, but i think that cracked software is still very important. without it i would never have go to the position where i could justify the buying some real software. i really think that companies that charge for student copies of software are shooting themselves in the foot by preventing students getting hooked and thereby making a market once they have graduated.</p>\n",
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