> If Corel does not enforce a global student/courses policy no wonder it's
> still behind Microsoft. Instead of looking for places where Microsoft
> abuses its power - maybe we should look for places where its competitors
> are not acting just as wisely.
Microsoft is not (most of the time) abusing it's power. It's abusing it's customers.
There's a difference (although subtle).
The point is that Corel is just as a dinosaur (e.g. big, stupid and on the way to
extinction) as M$, it's just not so good a dinosaur, which make it even more stupid...
The truth is that I'm actually surprised from your post: for anyone else I would bite
my lips and start explaining about Free Software and point him to OpenOffice. With you
I know there's no point (because obviously you know about them...).
Now don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that sometimes the free alternatives just don't
cut it and you have to use some proprietary tool and then you'd prefer it to be a good
one, but being surprised when that proprietary provider tries to fuck you over? that's
simply the norm.
And remember, M$ is not giving those copies of it's software for charity - it doesn't
cost them nothing and they get a huge benefit in return.
Just my 2cs,
Gilad.
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