Well, I've finally been deactivated... From what I understand, the issue is not diskspace(its so cheap that its not significant). And they don't care that much about namespace. Its a software licensing issue. MIT gets software licenses for a number = to students and staff and whatnot, and often gets educational licenses for software, and thus technically, it can't be used for non-educational users(matlab is not exactly cheap, but it is ubiquitious on campus). Then again, this is from several old discussions I've had and may well be wrong.
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Date: 2003-01-20 10:02 am (UTC)From what I understand, the issue is not diskspace(its so cheap that its not significant). And they don't care that much about namespace. Its a software licensing issue. MIT gets software licenses for a number = to students and staff and whatnot, and often gets educational licenses for software, and thus technically, it can't be used for non-educational users(matlab is not exactly cheap, but it is ubiquitious on campus).
Then again, this is from several old discussions I've had and may well be wrong.