A cracked version was indeed suggested to her as well but she decided it's too risky since it was her working machine - in case of any authorities control she'd

A cracked version was indeed suggested to her as well but she decided it's too risky since it was her working machine - in case of any authorities control she'd have to explain whole situation. Some additional story that I recalled: in the past - around 2003 IIRC, OpenOffice was sold in Poland by some small company so others could use it freely as an alternative to MS Office and fiscal control wouldn't have a reason to give you a fine for using unlicensed software. Luckily, in 2005 some sane people at Gdańsk tax office "figured out" that free and open source software is ok to use and made GNU GPL legal.