Ironically FreePascal was written on a free version of Turbo Pascal until it was self-compiling (or whatever the phrase is) when they decided to stop making the free versions. I feel the same about pirated software. Besides, once you get enough into programming piracy doesn&#x27;t seem right, in some cases you&#x27;re either recoding it for yourself or you realize there was genuine work put into the software to the point where piracy just feels wrong completely.