Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
Tim Smith wrote:
My 3 Office licenses cost a total of $100. Where can I
get a Wii (or 2 or 3 of them!) for $100, Roy?
You paid just over $33.33 per license for MS Office?
And how did you accomplish that? The _student_ edition of
MS Office runs ~$150 for one (very limited in use)
license.[1] Even their "ultimate steal" program costs
$59.95, and that is the lowest I have ever (legitimately)
seen Microsoft Office software sell for.[2]
[1]
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101674081033.aspx
[2]
http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx
It's $40.00 here because the school subsidizes it. I have 3
kids in college and that is what I paid. BTW all 3 schools,
specifically stated that OpenOffice is NOT supported. Neither
is Linux for that matter. For $40 bucks why bother with
freetardware?
That's because they have Daddy to take care of them.
It is different for someone who is supporting themselves without
a substantial subsistence source.
Very simply that $40 is something that can go towards more
essential expenses like meals. As a college student, I purchased
a TI-58 calculator. One engineering student commented on my
purchase of a cheap calculator instead of an HP quality one. His
cost $400, mine $100. I was on my own without parental support.
That TI-58 served me well for several years, although it was
"less elegant". It with the companion printer allowed me to
complete both undergraduate and graduate Numerical Methods courses.
I knew of engineering students who did their homework on the back
side of discarded computer printout paper. They did this because
of budgetary reasons. The profs didn't care as long as they had
something to grade.
A starving college student with a well used Pentium-III computer,
hand-me-down printer, Linux and OpenOffice will go a long way
toward meeting needs towards graduation on a shoestring budget.
--
HPT
Quando omni flunkus moritati
(If all else fails, play dead)
- "Red" Green
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