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The Dartmouth KeyServer's primary mission is to support computing
instruction and academic uses of costly software. Secondarily, it allows public
clusters to be equipped with piracy-protected licensed software. All additional
uses of the KeyServer are subject to these uses' priorities. Such third order
uses may include the occasional user, opening files that are in a native
application format unavailable to the user's normal array of software tools, or
the use of software on a "test-drive" evaluation for developing academic or
administrative systems.
The KeyServer's mission does not include the campus-wide support of office
productivity tools outside such occasional use or simple file translation.
KeyServer-controlled software should not be viewed by anyone as a means to
avoid purchasing their own software licenses for tools they use regularly. If,
after using KeyServer software to "test-drive" an application, you decide that
tool is one you will plan to use regularly, you should purchase your own
license. In every case and at any time, computer and academic instruction uses
pre-empt any other use.
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