Is money earned from selling programs created using a pirated version of Visual Studio considered ill-gotten (haram), and is it permissible to sell programs created using the official free version of the same program?
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The ruling on using pirated software, as per no. 147179, is that it is impermissible. It is permissible to use and benefit from free versions of software, as stated in Fatwa no. 107735.
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