Re:What alternatives? (Score 0)

Sorry but it is BS. No schools DON'T buy single copies of programs, but you can be damned sure they aren't gonna do something stupid such as purchasing site licenses for a suite that doesn't get used there. They get site licenses for word only pal. Then the other faculty and staff get full suites which are part of the main universities deal. The law school is supported by its own INTERNAL staff of which I used to be. No, they aren't going to just install the suite everywhere....shit each school decides for itself what type of site licnesing it even WANTS to do...per user or per seat etc...Putting extra crap that students don't need or use on cluster computers just results in more things that can go wrong. BTW, law students are the only ones ALLOWED to use the pcs I am talking about..the faculty and staff get totally separate pcs preloaded with the full shebang...so there's your experience to the contrary...btw...I don't argue things UNLESS I have personal experience.