You have been working on some financial projections manually for two days now. It seems that each time you think you have them completed your boss shows up with a new assumption or another “what if ” question. If you only had a copy of a spreadsheet software program for your personal computer, you could plug in the new assumptions and revise the estimates with ease. Then, a colleague offers to let you make a copy of some software that is copyrighted. What would you do?

(a) I would accept my friend’s generous offer and make a copy of the software.

(b) I would decline to copy it and plug away manually on the numbers.

(c) I would decide to go buy a copy of the software myself, for $300, and hope I would be reimbursed by the company in a month or two.

(d) I would request another extension on an already overdue project date.