I brought this up at work, and a co-worker and I were absolutely stunned at this. To authenticate yourself as a student, after (signing into live, and then) choosing OSU, you then authenticate via shibboleth (osu's authentication service) using your name.#<br>
<br>ohh, and these tools would cost alot of money if you were to have to buy them. <br><br>side note, at the swe career fair yesterday, several companies looking for CompSci students mentioned that they are a .NET shop, so yes, the empire is certainly making a strong move by training and arming students with knowledge of the .NET stack.<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Microsoft is now offering their developer and design tools
to students at no charge. Since this is a mailing list of developers, I
thought it might be a nice opportunity for people to get their hands on SQL Server
2005 Developer Edition, Visual Studio 2008 or Windows Server 2003. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In order to relate this to the topic of open source, I'd
have to say it is an ingenuous tactic by Microsoft to try to hook the kids
while they're young. I know many developers that stuck with
open source or portable languages exclusively because they grew proficient with
them in college. Developers who only know how to use Microsoft products
will require businesses to purchase at the very least a server product and a
copy of the developer product. Seems like the empire is striking back……</span></font></p>
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