Free accounts for students?
patio11: I (very occasionally) get asked for free copies of my software.  Past reasons have included "I am a nun", "I live in a country where $25 is a lot of money", and "I teach at an inner city school district with no instructional aid budget".I told the first person to ask this that I would make an exception just this once and "write off" one copy as a marketing expense.  (Nota bene for US-based software writers: you cannot actually treat free licenses as a business expense.)  This is also what I have told any subsequent people who were motivated enough to try to ask for it.My theory: software licenses cost me nothing to issue, I can say "Yes" faster than I can say "No", and I already am philosophically OK with giving out metric tonnes of free value to get a small percentage of visitors to pay because that is, after all, my entire business model.  The fact that this practice creates rabidly vocal fans of my business is a bonus.