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I think it is actually prevalent in a lot of industry. They don't make a lot of money off academia with those ~$30 student licenses.
by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I think it is actually prevalent in a lot of industry. They don't make a lot of money off academia with those ~$30 student licenses.
- analog31 7y agoHistorically, the free or cheap student licenses were believed to pay them back when those students moved into industry and were inclined to install what they were familiar with. There's still a lot of MATLAB in college teaching curricula. Part of when I help on-board newly graduated colleagues (typically engineers and scientists, not hired as programmers) is to reassure them that they can get a MATLAB license if will help them get productive quickly. This has happened once or twice. Many of them never bother, as they get busy enough with CAD and basic design work, that they don't really find a use for scientific computation. But to an increasing extent, they're willing to make the hop to Python, possibly just because it's a popular buzzword, but in any event, they are able to get themselves up to speed pretty quickly.
- 6thaccount2 7y agoOh I have no doubt that the cheap license is to get folks hooked, but as I said, it is not where they make money. A single user license and a few toolboxes brings in more cash than all the student licenses my University probably used that year.