2012/2/5 Mordechai Behar <mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > Those are just developer tools, and even then, only a few institutions in > Israel are accepted as viable places of study that will allow a student to > download the software. > A better system is the MSDAA (Microsoft Developers Academic Alliance) which > allows a student who is registered for specific courses in specific > institutions to download and use nearly every Microsoft application, > including the actual operating system and office suite. However, to the best > of my knowledge this is only available to compsci and computer engineering > students at Hebrew University.
In mechanical engineering at the Technion we had access to MSDAA, but Office was not included. Everything else, including Windows 7, was. > The Teacher's Union allows a member to purchase heavily discounted software, > I think MS Office 2010 goes for 100 NIS. I cannot find details about this. If you can, I would love to know. My wife is a therapist and gets some Department of Education benefits, such as a reduced interest loan at Mosad. > I think that the length and speed of growth of this thread points to just > how frustrated we all are at the current situation. So why don't we change > it? We happen to have Hamakor, a registered nonprofit organization to > promote the use of free and open source software in Israel. So why not start > some kind of campaign? A public message? People are still riled up about the > social protests of the past summer, we could ride that wave. > I've been active for years, writing to websites and other entities. Instead of organising, we are better off being disparate in my opinion. If Ofek receives a letter per week requesting Firefox support, that is more convincing than a letter from some unknown organisation complaining about freedom. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il