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With the recent hype by BSA on catching distribution of pirated software, some of the distributor companies I know are taking precautions to ensure a they won’t get caught. Precautions include uninstalling all the non licensed software such as MS Office, Norton Antivirus, Windows and more.

Licensed software are also selling like hot cakes coz of the scare. The place I work, however, is not as terrified with the the threats of the Gov. They merely asked us to shut the office should we get a suspiscious feeling that the Ops people are coming. Er, not very helpful I reckon.

Personally, I feel that distributing or even using Pirated softwares are wrong. A discussion is going on in our RAGE forum regarding Piracy as a sin even this moment. Therefore, I decided to take some steps to clean up whatever is in my computer (the office one that is). I came upon this cool OpenSource software, SOT Office 2003, the equivalent of MS Office. I actually saw the software in a ..er.. pirated CD shop somewhere in Mines before I looked it up online. Man, selling opensource softwares? That’s terrible!

Anyways, I uninstalled all the other stuff and installed this one. Check out SOT Calc, looks and works just like Excel.

SOT Office 2003 comes complete with SOT Calc, Draw,Writer,Math,Impress,HTML Editor, and Global. Impress is like a version of Powerpoint while Writer is like Word. Haven’t tried out the rest.

Most importantly, it takes up so little space! I had like only 200mb left on my C drive, but after changing to this one, now I have over 500mb.
Now, my computer is completely free of piracy! Not to mention Spywares too. I even protected it with Spyware Blaster. It’s a great software coz it protects your computer from installations done by spybots. Highly recommended!