Daniel Parks wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>> Alternatively, have you tried talking to Metrowerks about getting 
>> educational pricing since you are developing open source programs 
>> with the product?  I'm sure they'd understand, it might just be 
>> finding the right person to talk to.
>
>Any idea if it's (semi-)legal to give another person one of the old
>CDs? They send me 2 CDs/year or so, and I'm not using the older ones. 
>
Yes it's legal but you are also giving up your rights to use the software 
since you are transferring the license.  I guess it's been some time 
since you upgraded though.  Now they post the upgrades and you have to 
download them.  It's a far cry from the early days when you got 2 updates 
_and_ the PC version all included in the original purchase price.

>They're Pro, but with an academic license.
>
Pro and academic are the same kits, but the license is different.  As I 
recall the academic allows you to develop personal software or freeware, 
but not shareware or commercial applications.  There are no such 
restrictions on the Pro kits.

>You can get an academic license if you have some school ID... so if you
>take a class in wine tasting at you local community college, you can get
>CodeWarrior for ~$100.
>
And you can then get a break on the upgrade to Pro from Metrowerks, but 
not much of one.  In fact Metrowerks will allow you to upgrade to the 
current version from _any_ previous version for about the same price as 
the upgrade from previous to current.  So I usually let my subscription 
lapse for a release or two and then upgrade.

-bob