Smunkeeville wrote:Kanabia wrote:[
Mmn, I made do with a trial version of one of the things I needed, but it lasted two weeks. The course was 15 weeks long. So yeah, not much help.
Yeah, that would suck.
Seems like you should talk to your universtiy about the issue with them not providing software licenses to their students.
Well, they do with some things. For example...my university is a member of the Microsoft development alliance...so all students in my faculty are entitled to free copies of Windows 7 for home use. Which is awesomely cool, if I weren't too lazy to wipe 800gb of crap from my hard drive and install it.
And they do have licences for the other software, the problem is that they're limited to on-campus use. We don't get take-home copies and they're often limited to certain lab rooms. If there's another class in the lab, you can't use the software. If you need to use it after-hours and it's not in a designated after-hours room, you're stuck too. The most amusing thing that happened this year was when I had a lab with 25 people, and the university only had 20 licences for the software we were using, so 5 people had to miss out as the software had inbuilt copy protection that stopped anyone after the 20th opening the program. Naturally, this had to happen in a class where I had to make my way across campus from a previous tutorial, so i'd get there after everyone else and spend that entire lab session staring into space. And then go home and work on it on my pirated copy.
That aside, getting your work done is sometimes simply impossible without a take-home copy, especially with 3D renders...those can take a very long time and sitting there in a lab staring at a blank screen for 8 hours while the computer processes it isn't really viable away from home.
Unfortunately most companies aren't willing to hand out licences for home use to students.
