[India too?] : Autodesk products now free for student and educator use

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Autodesk products now free for student and educator use « Icrontic Tech

Autodesk’s entire catalog is now free to students, faculty, and Autodesk Assistance Program participants. This is undoubtedly good news to anyone wanting to enter the engineering, digital media, content creation, or any other number of fields that use Autodesk’s products.

Autodesk produces software such as AutoCAD, perhaps the most well-known software packages for 2D/3D drafting and Maya, a highly popular tool for creating video games, animated film, and visual effects.
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Students weren't going to buy their softwares anyway & would resort to pirating them due to high licensing costs of autocad. I guess they figured why not give it for free and get generate some nice PR. Smart move!
 
Gaurish said:
Students weren't going to buy their softwares anyway & would resort to pirating them due to high licensing costs of autocad. I guess they figured why not give it for free and get generate some nice PR. Smart move!
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Well, there's far less piracy in the foreign countries and students do actually buy the software. A Mechanical Engineer friend of mine in US had to pay for the software because everyone in his class did. Also, this is free for both students and educators which means that institutes which earlier had to buy the software (mostly 1-tier institutes) wouldn't have to, now. The cost that was bore by the institutes and passed on indirectly to the students will no more be there.

I would say this is an excellent move by Autodesk and I really appreciate their effort! Will they generate good PR? Yes, and it's not just a smart move but very generous one too. :)
 
Arihant.EXE said:
Also, this is free for both students and educators which means that institutes which earlier had to buy the software (mostly 1-tier institutes) wouldn't have to, now. The cost that was bore by the institutes and passed on indirectly to the students will no more be there.
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No, institutes still have to pay for it

relevant line from the article:

Licensing prohibits use in classroom or lab use for instructional purposes
 
its not just PR , it also ties up students knowledge to this particular software which then generates sales when he joins the offices
 
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