I had eactly €100 per 5day week for most of my first year at college.
€65 was my accomodation (quite a distance from the college) which included breakfast
€4.50 lunch at college x 4 days (I'd frequently get it for less + drink because the lady on the till liked me)
€3 for a sandwich/roll x 5 days which I'd eat in the evening.
I had to budget because I had NO OTHER INCOME so your remark about beers doesn't cut it. My blood just boiled when I saw you generalising students like that.
And there is a considerable leap between using something for free and paying any money for it.
Thanks for the advice - I subsequently did that. But I have to point out you know nothing more about my situation than what I said in response to your comment.
Just like GitHub are investigating possible outcomes of their situation - in my situation I was perfectly able to survive on my means and dedicate 100% of my time being top of my year, building a strong reputation within the school of IT and working on my own tech projects that just happened not to be money making exercises.
Git was not used, SVN was. If Github existed at the time and for free, I can think of a couple projects I built at the time that I would could have used it for. I still strongly feel for certain classes of product, a free version for students would get them hooked early - but it's a choice GitHub have to make themselves.
I hope I've provided counter points to the "all students can afford this" argument and points for why a free student license should exist.
And there is a considerable leap between using something for free and paying any money for it.