{"id":124,"date":"2018-03-09T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T03:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2018-03-15T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T05:02:31","slug":"licensing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/smile\/smile-plus\/licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Licensing (and why it&#8217;s important)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the <a href=\"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/technical-support\/smile-plus-faq\/#software\">software included<\/a>\u00a0in Studytech SMILE is fully licensed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wherever possible, we use free and open source software, which we carefully test to make sure that it\u2019s secure and reliable, and doesn\u2019t constantly try to offer your users paid upgrades. When we find a free application that does a job as well as a paid one, then we\u2019ll typically use the free one, to help save you money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we can\u2019t find a suitable free application, we\u2019ll hunt for a one that does as great a job as its more expensive counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some software, like Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, is critical to the system and to your school\u2019s educational outcomes. We know that Linux is a free alternative to Windows, and that LibreOffice is a great free alternative to Microsoft Office &#8211; but we also know that knowing how to use Windows and Office is an important part of preparing your students for the secondary school, university and the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, we believe that great software sometimes costs money and we believe in paying developers their due, so we won\u2019t install cracked, pirated or unlicensed software on your Studytech SMILE system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the software included\u00a0in Studytech SMILE is fully licensed. Wherever possible, we use free and open source software, which we carefully test to make sure that it\u2019s secure and reliable, and doesn\u2019t constantly try to offer your users paid upgrades. When we find a free application that does a job as well as a paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/253"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/studytech.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}