On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM, waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct me if I am wrong. Microsoft gave every of it's product to > school for educational purposes only.
Yes. Almost everything in standard MSDN and more (checked builds)... > Were students allowed to copy the package and take away and install > it on their machine at home? Were they allowed to share the products? Yes. Students are allowed to burn one copy and use the educational license for as long as they are a student. They are not allowed to share it though. http://msdnaa.oit.umass.edu/ > i think it should have been much more easier as you would not have > to look out for the MS products availability so that you could compare > MS products and free software and show how good free software were. Microsoft was able to eliminate the cost constraint benefit that F/OSS software has over non-free software. That is the point I was trying to make :-( > I just want to know how much you guys agree with this as you are > developer and I am a student. This might be another evil policy of MS > against free and OpenSource software. It's like giving free hits of crack to the poor in hopes that they will get "hooked" on it in the future and never be able to ditch the habit :-) After you are not a student any longer, you must pay full price for all your Microsoft software... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
