I remember back in college that Microsoft was pretty much giving away student editions of all their software. I think they realized that if students, who are in

I remember back in college that Microsoft was pretty much giving away student editions of all their software. I think they realized that if students, who are invariably on a budget, couldn't get access to MS software, they'd learn to use the FOSS replacements instead, and by the time they graduated and entered the workforce they would know the free stuff better and start spreading it. I guess SAS and SPSS didn't have any similar kind of strategy.