I really have no idea what you are on about. You aren't competing with somebody giving your software away for free. They are giving it to a completely separate audience. Those people were never going to be your customers. If you lose customers to it, then you have failed to make them your customers in the first place.

You seem to think that I am defending pirating; offering up a moral justification of sorts. I am not. I am not interested in the slightest in the morality of the topic, one way or the other. I offer them no moral defence, nor do I morally condemn them. Rather I am telling you that you should not get bent out of shape over it.

And for the record, despite your insinuation, I pirate neither software, nor music, nor movies, nor whatever else there is to pirate. Why would I?

I think you are taking my response too personally for some reason.