Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-23 Thread Shiv
Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Were students allowed to copy the package and take away >and install >> it on their machine at home? Were they allowed to share the >products? > >Yes. Students are allowed to burn one copy and use the >educational >license for as long as t

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:55:43 -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Microsoft was able to eliminate the cost constraint benefit that F/OSS > software has over non-free software. That is the point I was trying > to make :-( But for a number of us free software propon

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM, waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct me if I am wrong. Microsoft gave every of it's product to > school for educational purposes only. Yes. Almost everything in standard MSDN and more (checked builds)... > Were students allowed to copy the packa

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-21 Thread waseem ahmad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the USA, some schools get every Microsoft product, excluding > Microsoft Office, for free. Does this not happen in India? It's > called the MSDNAA program. correct me if I am wrong. Microsoft gave ever

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 21-Feb-08, at 10:08 AM, pj wrote: >> and the relevance to this list is? > > > At first I thought Kenneth was being his usual cantankerous self well - even if microsoft was *paying* students to use its tools, it still would not be relevant to this list. (cantankerous enough for you?) -- r

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread pj
waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Microsoft is making full versions of it's developer tools such as > > Visual Studio Professional Edition, Expression Studio and XNA Game > > Studio 2.0 available to students for free. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and the relevance to this list is?

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the relevance to this list is? In the USA, some schools get every Microsoft product, excluding Microsoft Office, for free. Does this not happen in India? It's called the MSDNAA program. My school had it, and many others do too.

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread Sriram J
On 2/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dear all, > > Microsoft is making full versions of it's developer tools such as > > Visual Studio Professional Edition, Expression Studio and XNA Game > > Studio 2.0 available to students

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread lawgon
Quoting waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > Microsoft is making full versions of it's developer tools such as > Visual Studio Professional Edition, Expression Studio and XNA Game > Studio 2.0 available to students for free. and the relevance to this list is? _

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread waseem ahmad
On Feb 20, 2008 7:15 PM, waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Studio 2.0 available to students for free. OOps free. -- Waseem RwrWrwRwrWrwRwrWrwRwrWrwR Blog: http://babygnu.blogspot.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linu

[ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-20 Thread waseem ahmad
Dear all, Microsoft is making full versions of it's developer tools such as Visual Studio Professional Edition, Expression Studio and XNA Game Studio 2.0 available to students for free. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hJ0MTN1bAAu9mxQWG-IjhCfTxMYwD8UT82980 https://downloads.channel8.msdn.c