From: "Robert G Lewis" 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4489728b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Remember, we're talking a unit price per desktop of only roughly $55 for
> faculty (permanent), and $25 (student, fugitive, trojan-monitored), for
> **full Office Pro and XP Pro***.  Cheepcheep.  I went to the MS calculator
> and entered a mythical school of 300 faculty and 900 students (classy
> faculty-student ratio, eh?).  The perpetual license for students, again
> presumably trojan-monitored, can be purchased for those who leave school
> early.  There's some fuzzy way to purchase perpetual licenses for those
> who get their mortarboards, but I couldn't find pricing (more).  Students
> can also perpetually indenture^H^H license themselves by throwing dollars
> at some hard-to-find Microsoft extortioni^H^H representative, providing
> their school has done something obscure and prayed to Redmond on Thursdays
> in the Gibbous moon, and offered proof of same.
>
> They should make this exemplar #1 in Contract Law case law classes.
> Sheesh.

I think it could make a wonderful summer school / interim term class all by
it self  ( U of Alabama offers a 3 week interim term between
spring and summer, usually they are a professor's special interest /
whimsy).

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