It is sad and sort of irritating. The school teacher is prosecuted for using illegal software, and chances are he did not know it was illegal! Even if he did know about his wrongdoing, you cannot really blame him. He lives in a rural town, 1,000 miles away from Moscow. A poor community, therefore they probably had slow computers - at best. And sure, you can say why did they not just use OpenSource programs like Linux for their OS and OpenOffice as a substitute for Microsoft Word and Excel? Well, if even students at State did not know that these programs were available, can you blame a rural community? They are miles away from another city/town, and they are probably hard-pressed enough if they could even afford an internet connection to download these programs.

Well, now that this occurred, there is one good thing to come out of this event - people will surely know that this town exists and there will be sympathizers coming to their town and offering them donations. Publicity can be helpful.