It's good to see them giving back. They ran a similar program back 2005 for universities where you could buy a perpetual cyber cafe license for $10 / seat. I t

It's good to see them giving back. They ran a similar program back 2005 for universities where you could buy a perpetual cyber cafe license for $10 / seat. I think they realized it wasn't such a great deal for them and it is annual now (Source U). I bought some licenses for our computer club and Valve gave us contact info for one of their engineers who ended up sharing their Maya export tools. More and more companies are opening up to this sort of stuff but us students were flabbergasted to get "real" tools from a studio that we could learn and use in the lab. Keep it up, Valve!