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Hi, Jun —
Software piracy — making copies
of software without a valid license,
at least when that license can be
obtained — is theft and thus
would be a sin. Piracy is bad
when you pirate a copy for yourself;
it's much worse when you make a copy
and sell it to someone else, which
it sounds like your boss may be doing.
If you are reasonably certain that
this is the situation you are in,
you should not cooperate in it.
It is possible that your boss has
negotiated a license deal with the
software publisher that you are unaware
of. Thus, the copies you are making
may fall under a license. You should ask him about this. I
am not sure what your boss means
when he says you stopped purchasing
them because eventually customers
won't be requesting them.
If
he means that he doesn't want to
stock several copies of the software
when your customers may, at any time,
stop requesting them, then, if he
is honest, he'd order a legitimate
copy of the software as soon as he
learned that a customer needed it,
even if he had to send them a duplicate
copy immediately to satisfy their
needs.
In other words, purchase them after
the fact, instead of before.
Eric
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