Dear Software Vendors: Your network licensing causes me pain.

The linked article is the best argument in favor of open-source, open-access software I've read in weeks. All the flaming hoops the network administrator has to jump through, in order to install overpriced, underpowered software on an overpriced, underpowered operating system.

And it's a university environment. Just a suggestion -- during their formative years, maybe the students should experience something other than Windows?