At 01:04 AM 26/08/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
do you people really think that universities choose software just for student use?
One would assume that's at least one of the criteria. The best tool for the job is the one I'd go with. But free and open would have to be pretty important. There's a local university here that for years standardized on MS Office because MS gave them lots of money and free product. The students had to purchase the student edition at $250 a pop. Finally the CIS dept managed to convince the school to switch because once MS had hooked them, it stopped giving away stuff and started charging (a clever marketing ploy I know) and they wanted to be able to give back to the community.
T
