I'd say it's a very shrewd move on Microsoft's part - allow students to learn using their tools for nothing, then when they graduate they'll likely be using their tools in a professional environment where someone will be paying for the full-whack license.lukey wrote:But then the MSDNAA licenses are bizarre anyway - suggesting that software can't be used for commercial purposes, or thanks to some particularly vague language - using a server as a server. I get that the spirit of these licenses is so that developers can play with APIs etc. but I'd assume it's just a nice way to make sure students are groomed to stay within the MS ecosystem for as long as possible while there was no chance of them paying for VS, TFS and WinServer anyway.
It very much annoys me that Adobe want to charge students the outrageous figure of £500 for their programme suite. I'd be interested how many students actually do pay that - I've not yet met one yet I know plenty have CS4/5 on their machines.
