Question about Licence

Can anyone help me with the following question?

1. If I use a piracy copy of VB 6.0 to write a program and sell that program, is that program illegal?

2. If I use a piracy copy of VB 6.0 to write a program and use a VB 6.0 that with licence to copile that program and sell that program. Is that program still illegal?

3. Can we use Academic version of the VB 6.0 / VB.net to write program for business use? or write program for sell?

Millions Thanks~~

1. It is illegal to even install a pirate copy of VB (or any other software).

2. See 1.

3. Academic versions are for personal use only.


I would recommend downloading VB.Net 2005 "Express Edition" from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

It is a free cut-down version, and apparently has virtually all the features of the "full" versions.