That's approximately how I feel about academic discounts. I understand the software company's motivation for offering them, of course, but it still ticks me off to know that kids who are living off their parents and/or taxpayers get a better deal than others who have to work for a living.
Your poor thing. For goodness' sake. The majority of students I know (and I know a few) struggle to attend lectures because they have to work to pay the rent, and those few who receive government grants have to survive on about half the minimum wage -- the rest end up with a debt that takes decades to pay off. Moreover, they are required to present work that has been word-processed, or in the case of music students, typeset in Finale or similar. Or are you of the opinion that access to education should be dependent on daddy's income? Did it ever occur to you that whole societies benefit from education? They will all pay full price for software when they have "proper" jobs like your righteous self. I realise that you inhabit a culture which has difficulty with anything that can't be reduced to money, but some people have other motives for being educated, and simply cannot afford to buy hundreds of pounds worth of software at full price. Maybe your ire should be reserved for the executives who make enough in a month to provide fresh water to several million for a year.
John
________________ Dr John Croft Lecturer in Music University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RQ
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