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# I think Microsoft are finally giving up the fight


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(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 17:47, archived)
# YARRR!
I like this also, pirating software is natures way of telling software companies that it is too expensive to buy.

(I helped save b3ta! Neon Blue Ah ha ha haa! I feel positively capital!, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 17:49, archived)
# Why would I steal Office when OpenOffice is already free? Silly Seventh.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:02, archived)
# But the interface isn't all bevelled.
It's clearly inferior.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:09, archived)
# DISASTEROUS REVELATION!
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:10, archived)
# This is true.
(Peter_G, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:12, archived)
# haha - good point
I know little of these matters as my spiffy laptop and all software was free, courtesy of the government.
"Why yes of course I need Photoshop to complete my studies. Biomedical Science is full of image-manipulation assignments y'know... No, I couldn't possibly go to the library - my brain disease makes it impossible *waves MRI scans and neurologist letters*"
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:17, archived)
# Expenses-fiddler.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:18, archived)
# In all seriousness
I spoke not one word of a lie or exaggeration at my DSA assessment, but the amount of stuff they decided i was entitled to was shocking.

* High-spec desktop computer with TFT monitor, MS Office and printer [and they later gave me £200 towards a second-hand laptop when my neuro decided i needed lumbar punctures every six weeks and I kept passing out when I sat up for more than 10 minutes.]
* Digital dictaphone - i ended up with a minidisk player/recorder and mic AND a USB-type dictaphone in the end - and free batteries for 4 years.
* Three bookchairs [stands to hold books at a 'better reading angle']
* White boards and pens
* Tungsten T3 Palm PDA
* 2 floor-standing lamps, 3 "task" lamps and free bulbs for 4 years.

All of it was useful, and all very well used and I definitely wouldn't have been able to afford all of it myself but.. REALLY? All of that?

*shrugs* hey, life gave me an incurable pain disease, I'm gonna take any advantage I can get out of it.
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:29, archived)
# Is it permanent or temporary?
And awww *hug*
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:40, archived)
# permanent
I've had a headache since I was about 9 years old. And unless something magical happens, will continue to have the same headache ceaselessly until I die.
Still - I get free stuff and hugs out of it! *hugs back*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:54, archived)
# You are truly welcome to my tax money paying for that stuff
and I'm not jealous at all. That disease sounds impressively horrible.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:56, archived)
# I'm appalled at the amount of free stuff my girlfriend gets because of her life-threatening dyslexia.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:19, archived)
# Dyslexia is life-threatening
especially if you read the label on a bottle of bleach and it tells you "mixes well with Vodka"
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:29, archived)
# hahaha!
Just checked the actual site - they expect anyone to pay that much for software when they can get openoffice for free?! Or even go to the pirate bay and get it?
*click*
edit: I've also switched back to ubuntu from my 'free' copy of windows 7 ultimate.Boo Microsoft.
(Peter_G, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 18:04, archived)