Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use

Opera Watch writes "Opera Software today announced that it would offer free licenses to higher education institutions. This is a change from the previous cost of $1000 (US) for unlimited licenses. It remains to be seen, however, whether Opera will allow schools to give standard Opera licenses to students to use on personal computers/laptops within campus at no additional cost, that came with the $1000 license fee. This comes after a respected university advised its students not to use Internet Explorer, for its lack of security. Opera Software said they are doing so in an effort to meet the student and university need for security on the Internet."

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Re:Free as in beer

[idontgno]

Ah, GNUTrolling at its finest. Your id oughta be slashGNUtt.

As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.

At least you make a token effort get back ontopic. That's commendable.

The zero-cost (i.e., "free") license for Opera doesn't affect me personally, since I haven't been a college student for years, but it seems to be a good move to me. And as a business decision, it has potential because all those students will be used to Opera; some of those may like it enough to pay for it after they leave school.