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No-Cost StarOffice Licensing for Institutions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-soon dept.

eugene ts wong writes: "A while ago Sun announced that it was giving unlimited donation of StarOffice to China's Ministry of Education. Well, it turns out that they announced that they are giving unlimited no-cost licenses for all education and research institutions." Many college students now get drastic discounts on Microsoft Office - but this covers a much broader range, from kindergarten up.

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  1. Institutions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do /. users get free licenses then? Most of them belong in institutions...

  2. Microsoft offered the same deal... by j-turkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many college students now get drastic discounts on Microsoft Office

    Microsoft offered the same deal that Sun did when I was a college student -- no wait, I stole it.
    ;)


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    1. Re:Microsoft offered the same deal... by sketchkid · · Score: 2, Funny

      damn you for making me picture "4.5 assloads of cash"!! :)

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  3. College students don't really get a discount by pogle · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is great news!

    Here in Maryland, the state universities pay a massive license fee that covers every student attending, so they can pay for the cost of media only ($5, real expensive cdrs). But that money comes from your tuition anyways, so the savings are all only perceived...better off using StarOffice, and dropping that license, and saving some of that tuition money for better purposes (I want the old studen center made into a lasertag arena personally, but other improvements could apply too).

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  4. Re:We would qualify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. The Microsoft hired trolls got here quick, didn't they?

  5. Great news for geeks with kids by cecil36 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that any educational system can get StarOffice for free, we don't have to worry about our kids vandalizing computers when they see Clippy appear on the desktop.

  6. So, let me get this straight... by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 4, Funny



    ..StarOffice WAS free... but now its no longer free, so now it's free instead.

    I'm telling you, Sun's "Insanity First!" initiative is REAL! When you people start believing me? I was right about Katz being a mad-libs Perl script, wasnt I? :)

    Cheers,

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