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> This is the same old strategy of giving students discounts which get them accustomed to proprietary products, then marketing to those same students when they
by josteink 11y ago
> This is the same old strategy of giving students discounts which get them accustomed to proprietary products, then marketing to those same students when they graduate. Now it's just adapted for remotely-hosted software.
Sure. But how is Azure and Microsoft cloud services any more proprietary than AWS or Google's offerings?
- e12e 11y agoThey're not (other than aws being so popular/early-to-market that there are a few work-a-like open/Free olatforms emulating some of the apis/services). The 1 billion number sounds impressive on its own - wonder how many credits Amazon has given away by now? Lets hope MS reaches out to github or vice-versa so they can get added to the student pack: https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack