Frightened, Mariano tried to uninstall the program. The uninstaller asked for a password. He tried to delete the folder. Access denied. He pulled the power cord. The screen stayed on, glowing faintly, and the AutoCAD interface reloaded automatically.

The moral? No software is truly free—especially not in your native language.

Mariano ran to his university's computer lab, but when he opened his USB drive, the only file there was a single AutoCAD drawing titled "ALMA_VENDIDA.dwg" (SOUL_SOLD.dwg).

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