I had something similar happen to me on a contract job. I was offered a short-term (more or less a temp job) doing some graphics work in CorelDRAW which I still use. They didn't have the software on their computers nor were they licensed for it. They were offering very little in the way of compensation, but required that whoever takes the contract have the program, load it on one of their computers on site, and use it. I flatly refused the position because I told them the terms were unethical and illegal, and the pay should have compensated for the purchase of their own license for CorelDRAW, not the use of mine and my time for such a low wage. The temp service was appalled at my response, but they are all greedy anyway and would stoop to any means to snatch that buck. I have a personal reason for not sharing software because I got burned many years ago. I did the unthinkable and "loaned" someone a copy of a graphics program I had purchased. I was running my own small business in the neighborhood doing flyers, business cards, and other desktop publishing-type media. This "friend" wanted to try out the program and since I had an earlier version that I was going to throw away (it was buggy), I let him try it out. About a week later, I found out he had stolen all my business by outdoing me with his own flyers using MY program. He didn't have my disks, and CD burners weren't around then so I knew he didn't have a copy and he had given back my original. My own stupidity (or being too nice) burned me more than the company who wouldn't have gained anything since this guy had no intention of ever purchasing the software. I saw him a couple of years later and he asked me if I had any software I was willing to share. I told him he stole my clients away from me as well as used software I paid for, and I wasn't about to fall victim to that again. So that's another reason not to share your software. Why give away something you paid a lot of money for so someone else can profit from it?

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