Re: Free UNIX for non-commerical use.

From: Bill Gunshannon (bill_at_cs.uofs.edu)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: 29 Jul 2003 12:34:30 GMT

In article <3f258626_1@news.arcor-ip.de>,
        "Thomas Dehn" <thomas-usenet@arcor.de> writes:
>
> "Bill Gunshannon" <bill@cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> In article <3F2368E5.ED5037A0@hotmail.com>,
>> Anthony Mandic <nu@hotmail.com> writes:
>> > "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> As someone who works in a University, I am amazed UNIX vendors don't
>> >> give away free copies of their operating systems to students and home
>> >> users.
>> >
>> > Why? Do Microsoft do this? Perhaps you should widen your
>> > job experience.
>>
>> Actually, yes, they do. We (the CS Department) subscribe to a service
>> with MS that allows us to give copies and licenses to our students for
>> OSes and development tools and they can take them with them when they
>> leave school.
>
> And how much do "you" (the CS department, resp. the whole
> university) pay to M$ per year in total? Not just for that
> "service", but for everything.
>

Other than this service, we (the CS Department) also pay to license
MS Office for our labs and Faculty. I don't know the amount, as I
don't sign the checks, but it is standard educational pricing. What
the rest of the University does is not my problem and I can't say
how much they pay. But, after a short evaluation, the cost of the
MS educationl program for OSes & Development Software was found to
be not only resonable but also within our budget constraints which
are very tight. When you figure that we build most of our own machines
and so they don't come with any OS (and thus no MS tax like on a DELL
or Gateway, regardless of the OS you run on it) this is even more of
a bargain.

bill 

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