I suggest that the OP makes some stuff to showcase.
I'm going to ignore the large boldface font and say that we are currently starting on two new programs; one is a budgeting program and the other is a chat/IM client. The budget program will be posted when finished for trial usage.
I can name a number of people I personally know who have turned some pretty decent profits...
We, in fact, got the idea to start this small business from a very good friend of ours who is leagues ahead of us in terms of experience, seeing as he has his own company and a very stable one at that. He has even said he'll give us some pointers along the road. He has a Masters in computer science from CU @ Boulder, CO.
One more thing.
If you did pirate CS4.
You wont get away with it for long with your business.
Maybe for awhile. But soon enough, Adobe will find your business and see if a key is purchased by your name.
Adobe doesn't give a rat's fat ass if you use it at home for fun.
But, once you start making dough from it.
They'll come.
They can easily prosecute you for grand theft.
It would be like if badspot pirated TGE to make blockland.
It just doesn't work.
I am obviously not promoting pirating.
Don't loving do it you cigarettes.
There are freeware and open source things out there that do the same job if not better.
Really don't like the bolded word, I would highly appreciate it if you'd cease its usage in this topic.
Back on topic, yes, we are fully aware of the consequences of pirating software, which is precisely why we don't do it.