so basicly u are asking for an illegal copy of software

How is it that a school has a redistribution license, but not the software itself.

Holt Software and the Ontario Board of Education sealed a huge financial deal a few years ago.

there u go Dan holtsoftware lives

All Ontario schools are allowed to install and distribute (to students) the most up-to-date Turing install available.

.. Holt Software has been inactive for a few years now, I really don't think they're going to sue you for supplying a licensed customer with an up-to-date copy of their software. Get real.

I do not see anything saying you can distrubute alternate versions. You work with the version your school has acquired, period. Unless your school board rolls out the new copy, you're stuck with 4.0.

Besides, there's little use of having a version different to what your school has. Sure, you can use some new functions... at home. You would not be able to work on your projects at school or even submit those assignments, since they will no longer compile with the older version of Turing.

ok here is the situation:

there are copyrtght laws about giving turing to someone
you however being in an ontario school which has the liscene to do so can receive it
us being some people on the internet
u to us is some dude on the internet
how do we really know u are from a school in ontario and better tyet what if holtsoft (or an enforcement of the law) finds out, turns out that only ur school was allowed to distribute turing

now we are in shit with the law

With the latest copy, I could provide my Computer Sciences teacher (Current admin of our entire school) a copy, where he than could re-distribute to our classroom

What would be cool though, is to get your teacher to install any other language but Turing. Since the majority (at least all the ones we care about) are free... oh, and actually have some support available.

Work with the version our school has acquired? Our board has acquired 4.1. If you had even looked at the link, you can clearly read "4.1".

Edit- If you're unsure what that link was .. it's just information about all of the software the board currently has licensed, Turing 4.1 being one of them.

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Stop talking on this thread. Everything you've said has been little, to no use to anyone.

I fail to see how wanting the latest version of software to use some new functionality, can be at all bad?

Stuff

I need it, because I am entitled to it. You do not have to provide me with it but if I argue my point a little longer, maybe I can change the perspective of someone.

While I completely disagree with this thread to begin with, that statement is an absolute, no doubt about it, infringement on [The Rules]. You had no right to say such a thing to momop. Now, to add something constructive, while your school has a redistribution license, it has a redistribution licence for the version that it payed for. If they payed for 4.0.3, then they can redistribute 4.0.3, not 4.1.

Let's see here.... because you have to buy it? Really, I'm sure that if you wanted Turing 4.1 that badly, just for one, stupid, poorly implemented module, you can find it out there on the internet. Then you can go ahead with your plan and give it to your teacher, infringing on the board's redistribution license. I really don't care.

Also, on the subject of getting a teacher to change the language of choice out of Turing: Turing is not a mandated, set in stone language for instruction. While it is (unfortunately), a highly common language, it is not the end-all be all. Other languages allowed to be used are (and this list is incomplete), Visual Basic (.NET, 6.0 etc.), Java (usually using RTP, another piece of shit from Holt), C++, Pascal, Python, and I've even heard of a school using Lisp. So believe me when I say you are not limited in choices here.