bad university students. bad.
According to a study released today, almost half of Canadian university students use pirated software even though they know it's illegal.
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Well, duh. We're STUDENTS. Let's do an informal SFB poll right now: Raise your hands those of you who need to use, oh, let's say, Microsoft Word for school projects. Now, raise your hands those of you who can afford the $180 student edition price tag on a copy of M$ Office. Oh, plus the $250 price tag on a copy of Windows XP Home, so you can actually run Office (current prices, at Future Shop).
Anyone? No? $430 buys a whole year's worth of Mr. Noodle, you say? Damned right it does. And like all sane, non-patent-lawyer types on the planet, students get upset when the cost of a writing utensil exceeds their cost-of-living budget for the school year.
There's no need to hand Microsoft more than $400 because you want to listen to music, surf the internet and do some word processing. You don't even have to pirate software to do it. Just install Ubuntu Linux. It's free. It's fully featured. They'll even mail you a free CD if you don't want to download it.
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Well, duh. We're STUDENTS. Let's do an informal SFB poll right now: Raise your hands those of you who need to use, oh, let's say, Microsoft Word for school projects. Now, raise your hands those of you who can afford the $180 student edition price tag on a copy of M$ Office. Oh, plus the $250 price tag on a copy of Windows XP Home, so you can actually run Office (current prices, at Future Shop).
Anyone? No? $430 buys a whole year's worth of Mr. Noodle, you say? Damned right it does. And like all sane, non-patent-lawyer types on the planet, students get upset when the cost of a writing utensil exceeds their cost-of-living budget for the school year.
There's no need to hand Microsoft more than $400 because you want to listen to music, surf the internet and do some word processing. You don't even have to pirate software to do it. Just install Ubuntu Linux. It's free. It's fully featured. They'll even mail you a free CD if you don't want to download it.
