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Photoshop didn't become #1 by fining pirates. A heat model simulator is such a niche tool that the market for licenses outside of the institutions and companies who pay mega $$$ for it is surely miniscule(?)

It'd make more sense for Microsoft and Adobe to chase millions of license violators over Office and Photoshop. Maybe they do, but I've not heard of it happening in personal cases, just businesses. It sounds like this vendor is chasing CERN though, despite it being the fault of an individual not employed by them.



> It sounds like this vendor is chasing CERN though, despite it being the fault of an individual not employed by them.

The student was working on a CERN project from "within" CERN (how would the software vendor have known to contact CERN otherwise?)




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