He's already said the fee for you is 0. It seems he's mostly going for the university side wide licenses, I don't think issues such as yours are very important

He's already said the fee for you is 0. It seems he's mostly going for the university side wide licenses, I don't think issues such as yours are very important for him. Most people at a university who want to run a computation for a few days will do it on a computer that's permanently connected to the net, I think. Not their laptop.