Visual Studio 2005 Educational

robmiller · 22 Jun 2006 at 16:42

PaulStat said:
nice analogy although when you crash your robin reliant and ask for thousands of pounds to fix it you'll get found out.

using an educational piece of software when i'm not in education is hardly the crime of the century. I haven't pinched it off the back of a lorry and I haven't downloaded it from some illegal site

I still fail to see the issue

It's exactly the same as pirating it though :confused:

In both cases you do not have a license to use the software. Do you really think you pay hundreds of pounds for the physical media and some pretty holograms? No, you pay for a legitimate license, which you don't have thus you may as well have pirated it.

PaulStat · 22 Jun 2006 at 17:03

robmiller said:
It's exactly the same as pirating it though In both cases you do not have a license to use the software. Do you really think you pay hundreds of pounds for the physical media and some pretty holograms? No, you pay for a legitimate license, which you don't have thus you may as well have pirated it.

yes ok i'm a bad man

robmiller · 22 Jun 2006 at 17:04

PaulStat said:
yes ok i'm a bad man

I'm not some outspoken anti-piracy zealot, I'm just pointing out the ridiculousness of your claiming that what you did was somehow better than piracy.

Beansprout · 22 Jun 2006 at 17:05

PaulStat said:
yes ok i'm a bad man

Go and sit in the corner!

You might be able get your money back, I don't have a clue how eBay works...but I'd try, and then download the Express edition.

NathanE · 22 Jun 2006 at 17:23

The licensing/piracy issue aside..

Why didn't you just download the Express Edition and save yourself £50. There is negligable difference between Express and the edition you have bought.

Thrash · 22 Jun 2006 at 22:51

C# Express is an excellent product and if you are not needing to connect to an external datasource, i.e. DB2 or SQL server it will be great for learning the language.