Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 12, 2005 @02:41AM from the opera-licenses-are-a-dangerous-idea dept.

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:Blind Firefox Zealotry by delus10n0 · 2005-01-12 03:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

Opera just needs to ditch the "pay us for our browser" mindset. Sorry, the days of paying for a web browser died long ago, with the IE and Netscape wars.

Besides, I'd much rather have an "open-source" browser leading the market (or second in market, right now) than a closed source/comercialized one.

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