gawd i hate it when ppl reset headders all over the place
anyway i digress
"Program software may be used only for instruction and not for profit
research--not to run the infrastructure of the department
1. You can't let your secretary use Office or any other software acquired
through this. You've got to go out and buy another copy of it for her/his
use.
your point being, this is a "marketing ploy" aimed at students. hell
microsoft know that students will "aquire" the software anyway - they are
just making it legeal.
if microsoft wanted secretarys all over the world to have discounted
software they would market it that way - their software their choice.
"Membership is limited to departments within accredited educational
institutions in the US and Publicly-funded schools in Canada
2. If the student's not taking courses in the department, the student can't
use the software. (S)he must deinstall it.
since when does a student taking nursing require Visual Studio .Net
Enterprise Architect in combination with Windows 2003 Enterprise & SQL
Server Enterprise??
any student taking nursing only requires office which is installed on new
OEM computers anyway? or can be purchased at a cheap price.
also if your doing a Technology related paper then generally you are in a
technology related "department" so what is the problem.
"Free downloads are available only to those students (other than continuing
education students) taking credit courses within the department that is a
member of the program
3. Student's HD crashes? Well, better get over to the library to get a copy
of the media to reinstall it. What? You say it happened during a time when
the library is closed and a project is due? Too bad, I guess.
if a students HD crashes - and this happens to a LOT of students around the
time assignments are due ;P - the student asks the tutor for an extension -
wtf is the problem?
Of course, we all know what's going to happen here. The CD will get borrowed
then surreptitiously copied (wink, wink from Bill Gates). The student
doesn't deinstall the software after the class/semester is over (more wink,
wink from Bill).
its up to the educational establishment to ensure that does not happen -
hell i had to sign a two page contract! which said No Duplication
whatsoever, only in the form of Installing the software.
its up to the honesty of the student not to lend the disks around - not
that it matters because the only people i know who want the programs i use
have access to get them legeally anyway - so WTF is the problem.
"Students may not have the media, they may either download from a server or
check out CDs from a library or lab."
its not completely correct that you cant Keep the cd's - when it comes to
MDSN you can get your own copy.
What a joke! Anyone with half a brain here knows this is a marketing ploy by
MS to get the software in students' hands and make them MS-centric.
so your saying that students all around the world are as thick as two
bricks and cant see the shit on the wall when its splattered all over it.
OF COURSE ITS A MARKETING PLOY - if Borland done the same thing i would use
their software.
hell just because Microsoft gave me thousands of dollars worth of software
dosent mean a damn thing - my alliegance is to whoever will pay my bills.
Besides, CS majors tend to analyze *nix or Nachos, not Windows.
omfg - Computer Science isnt Infomation Technology - CS is all that nerdy
stuff that happens behind the cenes that i really dont give a shit about.
infomation technology is what happens on top of CS - so while your in your
stuffy back room punching out ASM to fix your delapperadated 1950's UNIX
Mainframe i will be doing things i enjoy - high level programming.
no offence but i dont really care how the metal does it - as long as it
gets done.