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Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Sep 17, 2007 at 09:38 PM
That is what I tacitly assumed, until you explicitly brought it up. But on checking, I cannot find any MindGenius EULA on any menu or online (including by google search). Gael monitors its licenses by a Microsoft-style activation process. This would serve to limit use of the program to N computers. But then, what does N =?
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I would expect the Education license to be different, i.e. excluding any kind of
>commercial use but, as I understand, you use mind maps for your own internal creative
>work rather than for presentations to others (as I do).
>
>alx
>
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 18, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>But then, what does N =?
N is officially 1. In the past (I haven’t registered MindGenius since v1.5) MindGenius Business provided an ‘additional free license’, i.e. a second activation key, so one could install the program at their office and home. I have no idea whether this additional key is provided for educational licenses. If yes, then N=2 for all practical purposes.
Once you have exhausted the licenses things get rather tricky. In Microsoft style, upgrading your Operating System and PC hardware will change the activation code and you won’t be able to re-activate your copy without Gael’s intervention. As far as I remember they were quite helpful, i.e. sending me additional code after I sent them an e-mail explaining the situation. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t say it’s the most convenient approach from the customer’s point of view.
alx
P.S. I should perhaps add, as a comment to an earier post of yours, that as getting one’s cocaine ‘shot’ for less than the regular street price is not really a cure for their addiction, so buying software at reduced price is no cure for CRIMP :-)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 4, 2008 at 07:49 PM
For the record, I decided to buy an academic license for Mindgenius after reading this interesting post, among others:
http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/2006/12/funnel_timeline.html
(From my experience, MindGenius is the most versatile program in manipulating mind maps in this and other ways)
Having used MindGenius Business (v1) in the past, I found that the academic v2 has a less ‘professional’ appearance, including its default maps having a variety of rather kitsch colours. It seems that the differences among the two ‘uncrippled’ versions has less to do with features than with design, i.e. the templates included with the program etc.
Other than that, I’m quite happy with the purchase, though I think the value for money offered by the product has seriously decreased. In the past, a Business license would entitle one to two installations, but I found no mention of this now.
Alexander
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Do you know what MindGenius Education consists of? MindGenius Business, sold at
>academic prices. Although I have repeatedly seen advisories that MindGenius
>Education requires proof of academic affiliation, I was able to buy a license at
>straight from the MindGenius site, no questions asked, no claims required. The price
>was $107, compared to $269 for the equal MindGenius Business (and $57 for the
>streamlined MindGenius Home).
>
>CRIMP crisis resolved.