***STUDENT BOUYCOT OF GRAPHISOFT***

[Anonymous]

Why do graphisoft make archicad availabel to students, then deny them any support??
Why bother "protecting" the full licence version with a dongle when a crack for that is just as easy to find as the program itself??

As an increasing number of software developers are finding the success and logevity with open source and web-based applications, where does graphisoft think its going to find new clients when our generation of students enter the workforce??

[Laszlo Nagy]

Check this other thread when someone from GS replies and tells about all the various Add-Ons that ARE available for the Student version:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=28128

[Laszlo Nagy]

dyllbot,
I have just been informed by another Moderator that yesterday you have posted a message in which you placed a link to a pirated copy of ArchiCAD.
This collegue of mine has deleted the post.
One more such action will result in banning you from the Forum.

[vfrontiers]

dyllbot wrote:
Why do graphisoft make archicad availabel to students, then deny them any support??
Why bother "protecting" the full licence version with a dongle when a crack for that is just as easy to find as the program itself??

As an increasing number of software developers are finding the success and logevity with open source and web-based applications, where does graphisoft think its going to find new clients when our generation of students enter the workforce??

If authors of software didn't have to guard against PIRATES, they wouldn't need hardware protection... You are the cause of your own frustration. Try making a living off software sales....

[Djordje]

dyllbot wrote:
Why do graphisoft make archicad availabel to students, then deny them any support??
Why bother "protecting" the full licence version with a dongle when a crack for that is just as easy to find as the program itself??

Did you try talking to your local ArchiCAD dealer/distributor if you needed help? Sorry, don't know who it is in the ether.

If you like giving your work away, fine. People usually like to get paid for what they do.

[rocorona]

Djordje wrote:

Did you try talking to your local ArchiCAD dealer/distributor if you needed help?

My car is an Opel Corsa. When I have some problem I don't go to the General Motors Headquarter, asking for a solution, but to my local vendor.
Anyway, I've never heard of student version of automobiles...

[Barry Kelly]

rocorona wrote:
Anyway, I've never heard of student version of automobiles...

They are called bicycles.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:

rocorona wrote:
Anyway, I've never heard of student version of automobiles...

They are called bicycles.

And they're still not free

[rocorona]

s2art wrote:

Barry wrote:

rocorona wrote:
Anyway, I've never heard of student version of automobiles...

They are called bicycles.

And they're still not free

Nor the technical assistance

[Aaron Bourgoin]

thanks for that - typos too - dylbot aka Dylan John Galvin of Newcastle Australia.