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Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Opera vs Firefox by ceeam · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh! While we are talking about it... Have you ever tried holding "Ctrl-Minus" key for a while in FF on Windows. The font gets tiny and then BANG! it gets huge again. Yes, it's a WinAPI quirk but still... Opera does not suffer of it.

  2. Re:Free as in beer by quantaman · · Score: 0, Troll

    The definition of free was used 'as in beer' well before 'as in speech'. Just because RMS uses 'free' in such a sense doesn't mean everyone must. Actually it was a mistake of RMS by using the same word (he could have used 'liberal' instead).
    Sure if he wanted it referred to as "*BLEEP* software" everytime it was mentioned in the American media!!

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  3. Re:Free as in beer by hkmwbz · · Score: 0, Troll
    "But, at some point I realized that as cool as Opera is, and as much as I think the company is a fine company, it's still not software that is terribly concerned with freedom."
    I'd say that it is, actually. But to me, actions speak louder than words. Mozilla is behaving more and more like a monopolistic corporation, spreading lies about their competition.

    I mean, how can the Mozilla spokesperson claim that Opera is not as portable as Mozilla? It's pure FUD.

    "I find it amazing somebody points out that he makes the same choice on slashdot (of all places) and not only gets flack about it but gets modded down for it."
    He gets modded down because he's talking nonsense. Preferring Firefox just because it's FOSS is one thing. Claiming that Opera isn't free is rubbish.
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