4 - Social Science, Education, Govt. & Religion

As soon as you go into a brand name product, you have to look at licenses. We have a limited budget each year so we have to look for alternatives.

Since it’s a two-year diploma program and we offer a bit of everything and don’t specialize in anything, it isn’t worth our while to spend a lot of money on expensive software when open source allows us to see the same techniques for a lot less.

It’s a great educational tool for us.