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Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:32 am
by wtetzner
avansc wrote:i never claimed on to completely suck.
Sorry, I didn't mean you were claiming it. I was referring to the earlier post about no MS products being any good.
avansc wrote:and as for the sharing, windows has a file sharing protocal.
Yeah, it's called SMB. Linux can use the SMB protocol using software called Samba.
avansc wrote:ans according to him, windows advanced server 2003 is alot more stable that linux on a enteprize edition.
Well, it's difficult to measure which is more stable, as Linux has so many different flavors, and it also depends a lot on the administrator(s).
Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:33 am
by avansc
yeah it is hard to really compare.
so with samba you can do something like
//192.168.0.125/c$
Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:48 am
by wtetzner
avansc wrote:yeah it is hard to really compare.
so with samba you can do something like
//192.168.0.125/c$
Yeah. In Nautilus (the file browser in Gnome) you would do smb://192.168.0.125/c$
Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:14 pm
by avansc
huh. thats pretty cool.
do you have to do any special setup, or would a fresh install be fine?
Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:32 pm
by wtetzner
avansc wrote:huh. thats pretty cool.
do you have to do any special setup, or would a fresh install be fine?
I think it depends on the distro. You just have to make sure Samba is installed, and then I think almost any file browser should be able to connect.
In Ubuntu it's probably installed by default, but if it's not you just have to open Synaptic (Ubuntu's graphical package manager) and install Samba.
Re: Microsoft DreamSpark
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:41 am
by arcelios
herby490 wrote:I just signed up for the Dreamspark program by Microsoft which gives you free software for being a student. The only catch is
If You use the Software to create software programs, You may only commercially use or distribute them upon the purchase of appropriate commercial license(s) for the Software.
does that mean that I am not allowed to give my programs away even if they are free and If that is the case does the Express version have the same restrictions assuming I don't get it from Dreamspark.
What Micro$oft is saying is that you can distribute them for free as much as you want. You can only distribute them commercially if you get the proper license(s).
The focus of the sentence is on
Microsoft wrote:upon the purchase of appropriate commercial license(s)
rather than on
Microsoft wrote:You may only commercialy use or distribute them
In short, this sentence is actually discouraging you from selling your work, rather than saying you can ONLY sell it.