Can software developers trust customers? Let's give an example of a customer who anyone would think otherwise :

extrait : "In response to a lawsuit accusing the US Navy of pirating more than 558,000 copies of virtual reality software, the Navy conceded Monday that it had installed the software on "hundreds of thousands of computers within its network" without paying the German software maker for it. (...) The company says it agreed to license BS Contact Geo on just 38 machines "for the purposes of testing, trial runs, and integration into Navy systems." The suit, in which Bitmanagement conceded that it removed the "control mechanism that tracked and limited the use of the software," seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in damages."

It's a sad state a software developer can't trust his customers and that he must track where the software runs otherwise he has no way to know what's going on inside the fence. You would think otherwise of the US navy, that the likelihood of those guys not paying for the software they use would be marginal at best. Eh, think twice !