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My company doesn't even pay for WinRAR. Their approach is pretty awful, haha.

If you use it or have it installed after 30 days without a buying, your company has violated the terms of the license.

Happens all the time. In the company I used to work at, everyone in the web development team used the obsidian editor. I mentioned multiple times that I don't think it's free for commercial use, no one even bat an eye. I feel like people just don't care, especially if they don't have a stake in the company (which is very understandable but imo still not reasonable).

Looks like one (or perhaps all) of the following is true:

1) the company too small to attract a lawsuit, and nobody cares 2) the company does not have decent IT training 3) the company does not have a competent IT department

At the place where I work, we have been told clearly that we are not supposed to install third-party software without approval, and if we did that and specifically used the software in a way that violates ToS, we'll get a serious chat as soon as IT finds out.

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