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Public Clusters of Personal Computers
Several public clusters consisting of Macintosh, Windows, and Linux
computers are available in Baker/Berry. These include Main Street, Reference
Area, Stacks, Berry Upper and Lower levels, and the 24-hour Novack Group Study
Rooms. Public clusters are also available in the Kresge Library study area.
Additional BlitzMail computers are located throughout the campus in
public access locations, such as the Collis Cafe and the Top of the Hop.
All of the publicly available personal computers are connected to the
Dartmouth computer network. Student course work takes priority over
other uses of these public computers. At each cluster, Dartmouth
software (for example, BlitzMail, the electronic mail program) has
been installed on the computers' hard drives.
Software Available Without Charge
You can obtain copies of software for which Dartmouth has site licenses and
network licenses without charge. You can also obtain copies of public domain
software, which can be copied freely and distributed widely. Some of the
software developed by Dartmouth's Peter Kiewit Computing Services department
falls into this category, as does software developed by other individuals or
groups.
Dartmouth has negotiated licenses with certain software developers for the
use of their products on the Dartmouth campus. Members of the Dartmouth
community may use these site-licensed programs without charge, provided they
abide by the terms of the licenses. For a complete understanding of such terms,
see the Guide
to the Ethical and Legal Use of Software. More information can be found at
the Software & Information
Industry Association Web site.
All Dartmouth-developed software and some public domain, site-licensed, and
network-licensed software are available on the Software
Downloads Web page. Programs include some system software updates,
BlitzMail, and instructional software developed at Dartmouth. You may
use many commercial vendors' products - all network licensed and controlled by
Dartmouth's KeyServer - by copying them from PUBLIC or Wilson under these
conditions: The personal computer you are using must be connected to the
Dartmouth network, it must have the file called "KeyAccess" installed on it
(see
Running KeyServed Applications for more information, or KeyAccess to download the required software), and you must be
using it for academic course work, training, or testing purposes. Productivity
software used on a daily basis should have a licensed copy purchased for each
user.
If you wish to use programs that are not available in the ways mentioned
above, you must purchase them from Computer Sales
and Service in 171 Carson Hall or from a software distributor or
publisher.
Ethics of Copying Software
Unauthorized copying of software is illegal. Copyright law protects software
authors and publishers, just as patent law protects inventors. Unless
it has been placed in the public domain, software is automatically protected by
copyright law. Unauthorized copying of software can harm the entire
academic community. If unauthorized copying proliferates on a campus, the
institution may incur a costly legal liability, and may find it more difficult
or impossible to negotiate future agreements.
It is illegal for a student, faculty, or staff member to copy software for
distribution among the members of a class or a department without permission
from the author or publisher of the software. This restriction applies to
software installed on hard drives and in public clusters, software distributed
on disks by departments, and software available on the central computers and
networks. In general, you do not have the right to receive or use
unauthorized copies of software or to make unauthorized copies of software for
other individuals or groups.
Misuse of software constitutes a violation of the Dartmouth College
Information Technology Policy, which governs all members of the
Dartmouth community. A copy of the policy is available at Dartmouth College Information Technology Policy and under
the BlitzMail Bulletin topic "Computing - * Computing Services *."
Violations of the Information Technology Policy may subject a student,
faculty, or staff member to legal and disciplinary action.
See also "Copying Software" under the "Computing - * Help Desk *"
BlitzMail Bulletin.
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