For ten years I've used a Windows PC with pirated apps, games, and media. As did everyone I knew. Sneaker-nets were extremely well developed, until P2P took over later.

Now that I'm a software writer myself, I see things differently, but that's just self-interest talking.

I live in Ukraine and hope to be able to make sure Apple doesn't see a cent of my money. I feel the same towards Microsoft, but there's no avoiding their products (they saw to that).