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Under the current system, Harvard needs to purchase only as many copies of a product as are needed at once. For example, because Harvard purchased 100 copies of Microsoft Word, any 100 of the several hundred lab computers on campus can run the program at once, according to Rick Osterberg '96, Coordinator of Residential Computing Support...
...think that Harvard needs to renegotiate a contract with Microsoft because not everyone can afford to buy the software and not everyone wants to pirate it, and I think that for $30,000 a year we deserve to be able to use programs that Harvard can pay for," said Ziad Obermeyer...
...Microsoft Office, a suite of programs including the ones accessible from Harvard's network, costs approximately $150 at the educational price at the Technology Product Center, Osterberg wrote in an e-mail message...
User assistants declined to comment on the policy change, but a former assistant familiar with University-Microsoft negotiations said he believed Microsoft changed its policy for fear of losing money due to piracy...
...warn users, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) has included an advance notice of the policy changethat appears on the screen when users attempt touse the Microsoft software through the network...