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If the uni has a license what's the issue lol
Also kinda shitty of those companies to charge educational instutions
Not only shitty, it's dumb. Even Adobe knows to give students hefty discounts. It's how they get new users on the hook.
I've been using Jetbrains products for free in college and I can say that it is the best advertisement. I bought it the day after my student license expired.
Ehh even when I was in school I used foss like blender and gimp. I've never had an actual copy of 3dsmax, Maya or photosoup. Been plenty productive with that my entire life.
Sure, but that's far from a universal experience.
Yeah, that's really unfortunate. I think the market would be way more dynamic innovative, and secure if such large packages would be foss. Larger companies can have their own full or part time specialists, and smaller ones can put out bounties etc
On my uni we also had licenses, their ratio per students were somethibg like 1:10.
The uni doesnt care. The software vendor does and is threatening the uni for not being compliant.
Ik
Also kinda shitty of those companies to charge educational instutions
It really is, but what can do? Capitalism exploits everything for profit.
Well obviously, seize the means of production?
Some software uses license servers where each client is supposed to request a seat temporarily. If more people use it at once than seats were licenses they detect that with phone home features. We had that with Matlab I believe, if you tried using it in the most popular time you might not be able to.