Taking advice!

He has: 18 posts

Joined: Feb 2005

I am taking advice from postings left for me for "WEB-SITE PROBLEM" which I posted a couple of days ago. Serif Page Plus 9 is going and I am looking at buying Dreamweaver. I came across a store who are selling Dreamweaver MX 2004 Full Version, License Category/Academic. cost £89. It is the (Academic) that I am confused about! I know what Academic means, but I don't want to pay out money for a program that I can't make full use of, would I be doing the right thing in buying this product? Please note that I am a NOVICE at this web-site stuff, so if you could reply in simple terms.

Thanks, Ray. Cheers!

Megan's picture

She has: 11,421 posts

Joined: Jun 1999

It is the full version of the program it's just sold at a lower price to students and academic institutions. It will not have the full manuals that come with the regular version but everything will work fine. It is just unethical to use an academic version for commercial purposes but that's up to you.

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He has: 370 posts

Joined: Dec 2004

Well, in terms of degrees of ethics, paying for an educational edition is better than not paying for the torrent of it.

For personal use, I have no ethics on software, it's too overpriced for a day to day user, but if you are using it to make money, and couldn't do your work without it, you better pay up.

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