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College Students Are Buying More, Warez-ing Less
Keefesis writes: "This story from a researcher at the University of Florida states that software piracy among college students dropped between the 1996-97 school year and the 2000-01 school year. One reason cited is that software makers have found 'creative' ways to entice students to purchase software(rather than the heavy-handed and largely unsuccessful tactics of the RIAA)."
Too bad the books weren't at educational prices. *sigh*
I remember $300-$400/semester 10 years ago. Now it's a drop in the bucket, but at the time it was a lot.
You have misspelled the word "purchase" in your post. Please pay more attention next time.
When I was in school I can't remember that last time I pirated a copy of Linux, gez maybe that's because it's reasonably priced for students as well as professionals. Now I'm not saying all software should be free, but back in the day it wasn't worth it to pay a hundred dollars to M$ for a piece of software the blue screened more often than not. Same went for Mathmatica.
Here goes my Karma, but if this gets fixed its worth it.
I BOUGHT (supported them) Red Hat 7.0 a few months back. I had it installed on a laptop after several days of reading trying and reading some more. I finally bought a low end PC to play with it on. Bottom line is I have a dlink DFE-530TX+ NIC in the box. It did not detect it and I am having trouble figuring out the install of it.
Can anyone please contact me that is willing to help?
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I could be a GREAT KARMA WHORE if I could just shed the few morals I have left.
Weren't there any students in 91-92?
If I were you I would not be complaining about other peoples posts. You cant even spell your own name right.
.sigs suck, thus nothing here.
A survey of 148 slashdotters revealed that the percentage of them who could actually count dropped from 53% in 1996 to 40% in 2001, a drop with 13%...
Jeez, when I bought my car they required I have full comprehensive insurance, which was costing me 300$ a month on a car that was 400$ a month. A couple of years later I moved to a place where I don't need the car and got rid of it. YAY! Now I'm no longer driving illegally! >:)
Insurance is the biggest ripoff around, especially car insurance. Paying out 300$ a month I could have dropped into a savings account and easily replaced my car and paid my medical bills if I'd had an accident. And I still haven't had one. I've dumped Around 5 grand to the insurance bastards and not seen one single benefit from it!
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