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| Certainly, education is one means to promote software usage and is a guaranteed way to popularize it. As an educator aI have the strong belief that software creators have the wrong approach to educational distribution.
What you learn is what you will use. It is as simple as that. that is why pirated software somehow contributes to make a software package popular and usually will lead to an increase in sales. Why then relying on pirated software effectiveness when properly identified educational centers could be provided, free of charge, with special educational packages ?
I still have not gotten reasonable explanation from ANY software vendor!
Mike Aparicio
MediaLab director.
Galileo University, Guatemala C.A.
Mike Aparicio Reallusion CCD # 20080816084919088819
MD. Electronics enginnering, MD Systems engineering, MD software engineering. Medialab Director - Galileo University Guatemala C.A. |
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| mike i think you have answered your own question - my guess is if you offer the software free to educational sites, there is less roadblock from someone to think they can pirate it and distribute copies to their friends -
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| Dear responder and Reallusion people as well:
Your argument is not sustainable. Read again my post and you will find "properly identifed institution"...
By this I mean, Software vendors could make customized versions of installers, with an encoded splash screen, showing clearly the educator's name. Also protected by a special serial number granted to the educator. I AM AN EDUCATOR!!!!
I would not recommend pirating to my students and certainly I would supervise their software usage, restricting installation to my employees and technicians. Students would use it only for practice!! There would be no way of spreading that software. But students would have the chance of using real, full functioning programas at OUR labs, learning and mastering particular applications.
Is this difficult to understand?
On the contrary, the lack of hands-on experience leads youngsters to get "torrent" stuff, where you can find EVERYTHING, really!!!! Restriction promotes violation and piracy. Openess on the contrary, exposes students to experience without the need of stealing software and makes them seriously interested in becoming professionals, acting as such, respecting rights and becoming adults indeed!
Again... Is this difficult to understand?
Is it difficult to accept the fact that technicians who know the usage of certain programs will lead companies to buy such, for their production?
Education is an opportunity for software makers to promote their products. Trying to sell to educators is a dead-end, because we know we become promoters...
READ THIS:
Microsoft granted our university, and many, many others, a full license for 1$ per student a year !!!!!!! To get their own licenses on operating systems, programming languages and such...
Would you dare to say Bill Gates knows nothing about software bussiness??????
Small software companies should learn from Billy!!
Mike Aparicio Medialab Director - Galileo University |
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