For my 16th birthday I told my parents the only thing I wanted was a registered copy of my BBS software (WWIV 4.24a).
It was free to run, but if you registered it (I think it was $80), it got you the source code that you could modify as you saw fit.
Even though the pirated source was readily available and most people ran cracked modded boards, I still wanted to be legit. Kinda like one of the few who actually bought WinRAR.
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